Paul Foot

Paul Foot died in July 2004. He wrote 60 pieces for the LRB – on subjects including Leon Britain, the Birmingham Six, MI5, Tiny Rowland, Neil Hamilton, Gordon Brown and (often) Shelley.

In the LRB Archive:

• Shoy-Hoys: The not-so-great Reform Act · 6 May 2004

  • Reform! The Fight for the 1832 Reform Act by Edward Pearce

• Blood Boiling on corporate takeover · 22 February 2001

  • Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain by George Monbiot
  • No Logo by Naomi Klein

• Medes and Persians: The Government’s Favourite Accountants · 2 November 2000

• Diary: the Labour Party’s vacillation over rail privatisation · 28 October 1999

• They should wear masks: Highway Robbery · 7 January 1999

  • Stagecoach: A Classic Rags-to-Riches Tale from the Frontiers of Capitalism by Christian Wolmar

• Mr Straight and Mr Good on Gordon Brown · 19 February 1998

  • Gordon Brown: The Biography by Paul Routledge

• Prince and Pimp · 1 January 1998

  • The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken by Luke Harding and David Leigh

• Diary · 11 December 1997

• Half Bird, Half Fish, Half Unicorn · 16 October 1997

  • Peter Cook: A Biography by Harry Thompson

• Wigs and Tories · 18 September 1997

  • Trial of Strength: The Battle Between Ministers and Judges over Who Makes the Law by Joshua Rozenberg
  • The Politics of the Judiciary by J.A.G. Griffith

• The market taketh away · 3 July 1997

  • Number One Millbank: The Financial Downfall of the Church of England by Terry Lovell

• Sleazing, Sniping, Sneaking and Back-Biting · 3 April 1997

  • Once a Jolly Bagman: Memoirs by Alistair McAlpine

• Dear Mohamed · 20 February 1997

  • Sleaze: The Corruption of Parliament by David Leigh and Ed Vulliamy

• Dashing for Freedom · 12 December 1996

  • Full Disclosure by Andrew Neil

• ‘I will embarrass you now by saying that I always thought you should be Chancellor of the Exchequer’ · 17 October 1996

  • Sleaze: Politicians, Private Interests and Public Reaction edited by F.F. Ridley and Alan Doig
  • Changing Trains: The Autobiography of Steven Norris
  • The Quango Debate edited by F.F. Ridley and David Wilson

• Diary · 5 September 1996

• Keeping Quiet on Child Abusers · 4 July 1996

  • The Kincora Scandal: Political Cover-Up and Intrigue in Northern Ireland by Chris Moore

• Per Ardua · 8 February 1996

  • In the Public Interest by Gerald James

• Tearing up the Race Card · 30 November 1995

  • The New Untouchables: Immigration and the New World Worker by Nigel Harris
  • The Cambridge Survey of World Migration edited by Robin Cohen

• Those Suits · 7 September 1995

  • Jeffrey Archer: Stranger than Fiction by Michael Crick

• Buying and Selling · 6 April 1995

  • The Davies Report: The ‘Great Battle’ in Swansea by Michael Davies

• Up the Levellers · 8 December 1994

  • The New Model Army in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1645-53 by Ian Gentles

• The Common Touch · 10 November 1994

  • Hanson: A Biography by Alex Brummer and Roger Cowe

• Licence to kill · 10 February 1994

  • Spider’s Web: Bush, Saddam, Thatcher and the Decade of Deceit by Alan Friedman
  • The Unlikely Spy by Paul Henderson

• Taking the blame · 6 January 1994

  • Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie – Inside the DIA by Donald Goddard and Lester Coleman
  • The Media and Disasters: Pan-Am 103 by Joan Deppa, Maria Russell, Dona Hayes and Elizabeth Lynne Flocke

• Travels on the left · 2 December 1993

  • John Strachey: An Intellectual Biography by Noel Thompson
  • John Strachey by Michael Newman

• Still it goes on · 4 November 1993

  • Ambushed: My Story by Judith Ward

• There is only one Harrods · 23 September 1993

  • Tiny Rowland: A Rebel Tycoon by Tom Bower

• Diary · 5 August 1993

• A Damned Good Investment · 25 February 1993

  • Studded with Diamonds and Paved with Gold: Miners, Mining Companies and Human Rights in South Africa by Laurie Flynn

• Dirty Money · 17 December 1992

  • A Full Service Bank: How BCCI stole millions around the world by James Ring Adams and Douglas Frantz
  • Bankrupt: The BCCI Fraud by Nick Kochan and Bob Whittington
  • The BCCI Affair: A Report to The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations by Senators John Kerry and Hank Brown
  • Inquiry into the Supervision of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International by Lord Justice Bingham

• ‘No view on it’ · 22 October 1992

  • Nuclear Ambiguity: The Vanunu Affair by Yoel Cohen

• I jolly well would have · 20 August 1992

  • Claire clairmont and the Shelleys by Robert Gittings and Jo Manton
  • Mab’s Daughters by Judith Chernaik

• Not bloody likely · 26 March 1992

  • Bloody Sunday in Derry: What really happened by Eamonn McCann, Maureen Shiels and Bridie Hannigan

• Reagan knew, McFarlane knew, North knew, Secord knew, Earl knew, Poindexter knew · 19 December 1991

  • Under Fire: An American Story by Oliver North and William Novak
  • Terry Waite: Why was he kidnapped? by Gavin Hewitt

• Right as pie · 24 October 1991

  • Tom Mann, 1856-1941: The Challenges of Labour by Chushichi Tsuzuki

• Lunchtime No News · 27 June 1991

  • Kill the messenger by Bernard Ingham

• Bunfights · 7 March 1991

  • Memoirs of a Libel Lawyer by Peter Carter Ruck

• ‘Bye Bye Baghdad’ · 7 February 1991

• So what if he was · 25 October 1990

  • No Other Choice by George Blake
  • Inside Intelligence by Anthony Cavendish

• Changing the law · 26 July 1990

  • A Radical Lawyer in Victorian England: W.P. Roberts and the Struggle for Workers’ Rights by Raymond Challinor

• Bogwogs · 19 April 1990

  • War without Honour by Fred Holroyd and Nick Bainbridge

• Late Developer · 22 February 1990

  • Against the Tide: Diaries 1973-1976 by Tony Benn

• Inside the system · 7 December 1989

• Whitehall Farce · 12 October 1989

  • The Intelligence Game: Illusions and Delusions of International Espionage by James Rusbridger
  • The Truth about Hollis by W.J. West

• Almighty Godwin · 28 September 1989

  • The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family by William St Clair

• They didn’t even know it was a mosque · 6 July 1989

  • Talking Blues: The Police in their Own Words by Roger Graef

• Wilsonia · 2 March 1989

  • The Wilson Plot: The Intelligence Services and the Discrediting of a Prime Minister by David Leigh
  • A Price too High by Peter Rawlinson

• The great times they could have had · 15 September 1988

  • Wallis: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor by Charles Higham
  • The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor by Michael Bloch

• Accidents · 4 August 1988

  • Britain’s Nuclear Nightmare by James Cutler and Rob Edwards

• Diary · 3 March 1988

• Diary · 7 January 1988

• London Lefties · 17 September 1987

  • If voting changed anything, they’d abolish it by Ken Livingstone
  • A Taste of Power: The Politics of Local Economics edited by Maureen Mackintosh and Hilary Wainwright

• Labour and the Bouncers · 4 June 1987

  • Prime Minister: The Conduct of Policy under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan by Bernard Donoughue
  • Time and Chance by James Callaghan

• An Enemy Within · 23 April 1987

  • Molehunt: The Full Story of the Soviet Mole in MI5 by Nigel West

• Harold, row the boat aground · 20 November 1986

  • Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister by Harold Wilson

• Come here, Botham · 9 October 1986

  • High, Wide and Handsome. Ian Botham: The Story of a Very Special Year by Frank Keating

• The Card-Players · 18 September 1986

  • Error of Judgment: The Truth about the Birmingham Bombings by Chris Mullin

• The scandal that never was · 24 July 1986

  • Shootdown: The Verdict on KAL 007 by R.W. Johnson

• Westland Ho · 6 February 1986

• Diary · 4 July 1985

• Smoking for England · 5 July 1984

  • Smoke Ring: The Politics of Tobacco by Peter Taylor

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