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  Paul Foot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Foot was the son of Hugh Foot who, as Lord Caradon, was governor of Cyprus and represented the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970.
Foot originally joined the International Socialists, organisational forerunner of the SWP, when he was a cub reporter in Glasgow in the early 1960s.
In the mid-1960s, Foot was employed part-time by the Sunday Telegraph.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Foot   (1039 words)

  
 Michael Foot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Isaac Foot was an active member of the Liberal Party and was Liberal MP for Bodmin in Cornwall 1922–1924 and 1929–1935 and a Lord Mayor of Plymouth.
Foot was however a critic of the west's handling of the Korean war, an opponent of West German rearmament in the early 1950s and a founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Foot was married to the film-maker, author and feminist historian Jill Craigie from 1949 until her death in 1999.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Foot   (1631 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Paul Foot
Paul Foot, the radical journalist who died of a heart attack on Sunday aged 66, was a tireless champion of the underdog, and fearlessly exposed some of the most notorious fraudsters of his time.
Foot's bitterness and aggression in debate were in stark contrast to the love he inspired in friends such as Richard Ingrams and Auberon Waugh, who held him in the highest esteem without in any way sharing his views.
Paul Mackintosh Foot was born in Palestine, where his father was serving as an administrative officer, on November 8 1937.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/20/db2001.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/07/20/ixportal.html   (1631 words)

  
 Weekly Worker 530 Thursday May 27 2004 - By any means necessary
Paul Foot was won to revolutionary socialism by Tony Cliff - founder-leader of the International Socialists, the forerunner of the SWP - whom he met in 1961 through his involvement in Glasgow Labour Party Young Socialists.
Paul Foot was undoubtedly the ‘darling’ of the SWP: he seemed to stand above the inner-party difficulties and was a natural ambassador for the organisation.
Paul recounts with admiration the efforts of this organisation, thrown up by the working people of that area, to bring farmers and working class residents into what would now be called a supply chain.
www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/538/foot.htm   (1956 words)

  
 Is Paul Foot sick? | Samizdata.net
Unfortunately for Paul Foot, all the examples he cites in support of this breathless conclusion have little or nothing to do with the free exchange of goods and services within a capitalist economy, as they are, without exception, directly attributable to governmental interference within a mixed economy.
Paul Foot is not merely guilty of a failure of knowledge.
For decades Paul Foot has sanctimoniously postured as a supporter of the underdog, a valiant champion of the outcast, defender of the weak, and a protector of the innocent.
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/000171.html   (887 words)

  
 Paul Foot - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Paul Mackintosh Foot (November 8, 1937 – July 18, 2004) was a British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
Paul Foot was the nephew of Michael Foot, former leader of the Labour Party.
On October 10, 2004 — three months after Foot's death — there was a full house at the Hackney Empire in London for an evening's celebration of the life of this much-admired and respected campaigning journalist.
www.voyager.in /Paul_Foot   (819 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Obituary: Paul Foot
Paul Foot was a pioneering investigative journalist, whose campaigning style went hand-in-hand with a deeply-held belief in socialism.
Foot, tall, good looking, full of gravitas, with a first-class brain and impeccable liberal credentials, was a lifelong socialist and iconoclast and perhaps the most influential investigative journalist of his age.
One of Paul Foot's uncles, Sir Dingle, was an MP for both the Liberal and Labour parties, while another uncle was Michael Foot, another former Liberal MP who was leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3906833.stm   (710 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Veteran journalist Paul Foot dies
Paul Foot was a great inspiration - I attended many of his talks at the London Marxism conference each year, and he was always very willing to talk to you afterwards.
Paul Foot was not a corporate stooge, and as such I cannot think of one journalist from any news provider who is even remotely capable of taking this man's mantle.
Paul was unique, combining the best in investigative journalism with a wonderful ability of analysing complex situations and ideas and presenting them in an understandable and often humorous way.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3905493.stm   (3466 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Paul Foot
Paul Foot, who has died aged 66, was everything that is best in our gnarled old trade, and he graced it for five decades with stories and investigations that tumble down the years.
Foot's weekly column ran for almost 14 years, ending in spectacular style with him investigating the bloodletting of Mirror chief executive David Montgomery after Robert Maxwell's death and putting his report forward for publication.
Foot's column went from strength to strength, hoovering up awards and providing poor, sick and disadvantaged readers with a much needed voice, often ranged against a civil service bureaucracy Foot quarried with alacrity.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1264713,00.html   (1154 words)

  
 Keeping the fire of hope burning
PAUL FOOT, one of Britain’s finest investigative journalists and a revolutionary socialist whose speeches and books inspired tens of thousands, died of a heart attack on July 19 at the age of 66.
Paul was a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain and was its most optimistic and inspiring voice.
Paul was best known for his investigative work around cases of injustice, uncovering the truth behind some of the British justice system’s most outrageous frame-ups.
www.socialistworker.org /2004-2/507/507_11_PaulFoot.shtml   (670 words)

  
 Oliver Kamm: Assessing Paul Foot
Foot's campaign to free the four men falsely convicted of the murder of Carl Bridgewater was the result of a relentless exposure of the flaws in the prosecution case.
Foot's concern was to present Wilson as the creature of the scheming Lord Cromer, Governor of the Bank of England and guardian of financial rectitude.
Foot rescued his reputation from the critics and syllabus setters who sought to portray him as a love poet and showed him to be what he was, a poet of rebellion.
oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2004/07/paul_foots_lega.html   (6284 words)

  
 MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Paul Foot, radical columnist and campaigner, dies at 66
Paul Foot, the most seductive revolutionary socialist of his generation, died yesterday after having a heart attack en route to a family holiday in Ireland.
What made Foot, a Guardian columnist for more than 10 years, different was his energy and character, which combined to make him a tenacious investigative reporter admired and supported by people who would never dream of endorsing his Trotskyite politics.
The scion of a famous family of west country Liberals, dotted with MPs and peers, Foot's father, Hugh, later Lord Caradon, was governor of Cyprus during the independence battle with Britain in the 1950s.
media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1264371,00.html   (559 words)

  
 Paul Foot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Paul Foot, the son of Sir Hugh Foot (Lord Caradon) was born on 8th November, 1937.
Foot resigned from the Daily Mirror in 1993 when attempts were made to ban an article attacking the newspaper's new chief executive.
I first met Paul Foot in the very early 1960s: he was in the Glasgow Young Socialists, I was in the Newcastle Young Socialists, and we were poles apart.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JOUfoot.htm   (3815 words)

  
 IRR: Paul Foot - the death of an anti-racist pioneer
It was Paul Foot in 1976 who transformed the TV programme 'What the papers say' into a lesson on how 'Race hate and race violence does not rise or fall according to the numbers of immigrants coming into Britain but the extent to which people's prejudices are inflamed and made respectable by politicians and newspapers'.
Paul was unique because of his commitment, integrity and tenacious adherence to revolutionary socialism.
Paul Foot, campaigning journalist, born 8 November 1937; died 18 July 2004.
www.irr.org.uk /2004/july/ak000013.html   (593 words)

  
 Paul Foot: the lion of the left
What struck me most about Paul Foot that night was that for the first time in five years, he seemed to have recaptured his élan.
Paul Foot was the journalist who publicised injustice after injustice, including the attempts of his own employer to break the recognised staff union, the socialist who stood for Mayor of Hackney and came third.
Paul was expected to become a Labour MP, and editor of the New Statesman before the age of thirty.
www.labournet.net /other/0408/foot01.html   (924 words)

  
 Paul Foot (comedian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Foot (born December 24, 1973) is a British comedian.
Since leaving university, he has pursued a career as a stand-up comedian, with numerous television and radio appearances and several awards to his credit.
Paul's more recent TV appearances include Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, the Channel 4 2005 comedy discussion show FAQ U, along with Edinburgh and Beyond shows on the Paramount Comedy TV Channel 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Foot_(comedian)   (177 words)

  
 Tony Benn reviews Paul Foot's 'The Vote'|26Feb05|Socialist Worker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Paul Foot was throughout his life a passionate fighter for freedom, justice, internationalism, socialism and democracy.
Paul’s account of this dramatic story is meticulous in its detail, allowing us to understand what a massive change in our system of government was involved by extending the vote.
Paul moves on to the classic betrayal by Ramsey MacDonald when he capitulated to the bankers in 1931 and formed a coalition with the Tories and Liberals.
www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php4?article_id=5913   (781 words)

  
 Comedian: Paul Foot
Paul Foot treads a treacherous path between delicate comedy genius and awkward failure; and it’s one on which he frequently comes a cropper.
Paul Foot is probably the most unique comic there is. you either love him or hate him.
Foot in Newbury and although I can appreciate the originality and imaginativeness of both his delivery and use of props I found the whole performance excruciatingly, embarrassingly, bad.
www.chortle.co.uk /comics/pfoot.html   (1467 words)

  
 GlobalEcho - Alternative Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Foot devotes several chapters to illuminating this tension at the heart of Shelley's poetics and politics, in fact, and it is hard to see how it could have escaped Kamm's scrutiny.
Foot's exposition of Shelley's poetical worth is as philistine in its way as the right-wing populism that decries experimental art.
Foot argues that it is in Prometheus Unbound that Shelley resolves the contradiction in his consciousness between his desire for peace and his desire for revolutionary change.
www.globalecho.org /view_article.php?aid=1016   (2557 words)

  
 British Journalism Review Vol. 11, No. 4, 2000 - Geoffrey Goodman on Paul Foot
Without doubt Paul Foot is one of the outstanding reporters of his generation, and not just because of his remarkable and truly majestic work as an “investigative journalist” (mind you, I have always been sceptical about that word “investigative”, since it seems to me that all good reporters are “investigative”).
Paul is a great journalist in the tradition of his uncle and the remarkable Foot family.
Paul himself was rightly deeply protective of his column and perhaps there were occasions when, in the closing stages of Maxwell’s mania, he drew back from ridiculing the maniac on the ninth floor at Holborn Circus.
www.bjr.org.uk /data/2000/no4_goodman2.htm   (943 words)

  
 Paul Foot 1937- 2004 obituaries and appreciations - Indymedia Ireland
Paul Foot, who died last weekend, was one of the greatest socialist writers and orators of his generation, who inspired thousands of activists from the time he became a socialist in the early 1960s until the last week of his life.
Paul Foot was a memebr of the SWP and that alone proves that his politic was not perfect.
Paul Foot regularly used the platforms he had, latterly in The Guardian, to campaign on Ireland almost until the end.
www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=66061   (3520 words)

  
 Paul Foot Keepsakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The design features the Paul Foot tie, with a signed photo in the shirt pocket and a Paul Foot ticket and Paul Foot lollipop in the other pocket.
It is the sort of garment that, even without the Paul Foot design on, you would walk into a shop and pay about a hundred pounds for.
In the future, I shall provide other Paul Foot merchandise, including mugs, ties, etc. E-mail me with any suggestions of items you would like.
www.paulfoot.tv /keepsakes.htm   (867 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Murder at the farm: Who killed Carl Bridgewater?: Books: Paul Foot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Foot shows how the police and prosecutors, convinced of the righteousness of their cause, forged confessions and concealed exculpatory evidence to ensure that the defendants were convicted.
Paul Foot does it again in this book, about one of the lesser known miscarriages of British justice, the Bridgewater murder, where four men were unjustly imprisoned for the murder of paperboy Carl Bridgewater.
Foot meticulously goes through the evidence, finding all the flaws and holes in the prosecution case, and positing a plausible alternate theory as to who could have committed the murder.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0283991658?v=glance   (809 words)

  
 Paul Foot won thousands to socialism
PAUL WAS a brilliant socialist writer, a speaker more able than any other to make people see what was wrong with capitalism, a tireless campaigner against injustice, and an investigative journalist whose revelations caused the resignation of a Tory cabinet minister and exposed the corruption of businessmen, big and small.
Meanwhile Paul was also exposing the faulty evidence that had led to the hanging of James Hanratty for murder in 1961.
Paul was first taken ill five years ago, and that reduced his capacity to speak at meetings.
www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk /news/foot.htm   (804 words)

  
 uh ah paul mcgrath!! Say uh ah paul mcgrath!! - Foot.ie
Waterford United have announced the arrival of former Republic of Ireland star Paul McGrath as the club’s new Director of Football and Development and Alan Reynolds as player/manager.
Paul, recognised the world over for his football acumen and regarded as an expert analyst was capped 83 times for his country and played over 560 games in English football, brings a wealth of experience to his new role, which is expected to commence immediately.
paul has announced that the first training"session" will be in the quays bar in galway city.anybody who cant stay the pace will not have a place on the team.there will be further gruelling down the hatch sessions in the local night clubs
foot.ie /forums/showthread.php?t=12421   (1330 words)

  
 Paul Bunyan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
She swore allegiance to Paul though he were dead, that she forever and from that time forth would be the most fridged Babe in all the world, and never would she have another man. Must have been so, too, because of what happened next.
Paul was back with the lumbering team and it seems that the combination of those boots and Paul's bunion was a match made in heaven and/or in hell.
Paul sware Babe into going bare footed from then on and she's been happy as can be living together with her Paul like Tarzan and Jane in that Amazon Jungle ever since.
www.xmission.com /~hunter/paulb.html   (3485 words)

  
 Paramount Review of Paul Foot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Paul Foot is a curiously delightful addition to the stand up scene.
Foot faces the same challenge as every solo act in Edinburgh - how to fill an hour when you?re only used to 20-minute sets, knowing that the Perrier rules demand a minimum of 50.
Nonetheless, Foot more than saves himself by rounding off the evening with a fantastically oblique presentation on the nature of crime (including bad charts, surveys and ?van diagrams?), all delivered with inspiring pedantry and passion.
www.paramountcomedy.co.uk /comedy/reviews/article.aspx?id=129   (323 words)

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