Paul Foot

Paul Foot was born in Palestine in 1937.  He started as a journalist on the Scottish Daily Record in 1961, and has worked for the Daily Herald, the Sunday Telegraph, Private Eye and Socialist Worker.  For fourteen years from 1979 he had his own page in the Daily Mirror.  He was named Journalist of the Year by Granada's What The Papers Say in 1972 and 1989, and, in 2000, Journalist of the Decade (the 1990s).  He was named Campaigning Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards in 1981 and with Tim Laxton won the George Orwell prize for journalism in 1994.  His books are Immigration and Race in British Politics (1965) The Politics of Harold Wilson (1968) The Rise of Enoch Powell (1969) Who Killed Hanratty? (1971) Red Shelley (1981) The Helen Smith Story (1983) Murder on the Farm, Who Killed Carl Bridgewater? (1986) Who Framed Colin Wallace? (1989) Words as Weapons (1990) and Articles of Resistance (2000).  He died on 18 July 2004.