Paul Foot
Jay | 19.07.2004 08:59 | Liverpool
I may not have agreed with all his politics but his investigative journalism work and his writings were always of a high quality. I know some called him a champagne socialist, and others thought he was the very embodiment of middle-class socialist angst, but his incisive work into some of the most important issues fo the day should be what he is remembered for. He showed that if you care enough and are persistent enough, your message will get through.
Read more at the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3905493.stm
or at the Guardian:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1264371,00.html
And no doubt, many other places in the near future.
Read more at the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3905493.stm or at the Guardian:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1264371,00.html And no doubt, many other places in the near future.
Jay
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Revolt In Peace!
21.07.2004 12:47
With Paul's death we've lost one of the best of us, a passionate man who investigated scandal and corruption with determination and wit.
He was always a great supporter of Liverpudlian people and attended many an event here, not least the Right to Work Campaign marches and talks in the 70s and 80s.
How badly our city is crying out for someone like him now, someone to investigate the rot at its heart, someone to expose how the council leaders are merrily asset stripping streets and spaces all over the place behind a thickly glossed shroud of PR hype.
Paul would have been appalled for example at the state of the old Everton and Lister Drive libraries - what does a string of decrepit libraries in poor areas really say about a 'City of Culture' - Footie could tell you!
Long live Bollinger Bolshevism.
Foot fetishist
Not one!
28.07.2004 14:08
Still, never mind. Buy the next issue of Private Eye and see the tribute to him.
Jay