Paul Foot 1937-2004

Paul Foot has died:

He was renowned for his dogged investigative journalism and was voted Campaigning Journalist of the Decade in the What The Papers Say awards four years ago.

Ian Hislop:

He was a tremendous journalist and he will be a huge loss.

Francis Wheen:

Paul had an absolute belief in the power of the written word. That explains why he wrote for everyone, from the Mirror to the London Review of Books.

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