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Mr Straight and Mr Good

Paul Foot

  • Gordon Brown: The Biography by Paul Routledge

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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.

From the archive

Nerds, Rabbits and a General Lack of Testosterone
R.W. Johnson: Major and Lamont

Victory in Defeat
Neal Ascherson on Trotsky

‘I am my own foundation’
Megan Vaughan: Fanon and Third Worldism

Dragon-Slayers
Corey Robin: Careerism and Hannah Arendt

Other People’s Capital
John Lanchester on Conrad and Barbara Black