Talk:Paul Foot (journalist)

message: hi you don't know me but me i do.
Im virginie lambinet from france i have been in london during the summer 1999 and i met a boy named shug mc cormack who works for you
I tried to keep on touch with him so would you say him i left a message and tell him my aderss please it would be very nice !
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Hi Virginie,
Going back seven years, Paul Foot was still alive. Last year, he died. So it's unlikely that Paul Foot can contact your former boy-friend Shug McCormack. Nice idea, though!Phase4 19:58, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: There's no mention here of the pamphlet 'Lockerbie: The Flight From Justice'. It was published by Private Eye in 2001 (I think), but my understanding is that Foot was the sole author. Unfortunately my copy is lost forever, so I can't provide many details myself. I wonder if it's not mentioned here specifically because it is a pamphlet, rather than a book, and if so are there other unmentioned works that merit inclusion? Edjack 11:50, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Publication? 

message: This issue keeps being raised in edits to the article. 
Foot did not deny the nature of his education, but to say this without using his own or another prominent figures words about him obviously violates NPOV. Richard Ingrams in his Foot biography comments about public school left-wingers referring to their school days in a falsely derogatory way and says that this was true of Foot. I do not have my own copy of the book, but it would make for an interesting contrast to the Chenevix-Trench passage. Philip Cross 19:18, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Privileged Education

message: It is worth mentioning that Foot was an exceptional orator. 86.201.150.149 (talk) 07:19, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
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message: Paul Foot did not simply join International Socialism - originally he joined Gerry Healy's Socialist Labour League and was the (very capable) editor of Keep Left, journal of the Healyite Young Socialists. Whilst still editing Keep Left he entered into negotiations with Tony Cliff and IS eventually making a formal break with Healy and joining IS.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.69.238.124 (talk) 08:49, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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message: Unaware of all (or pretty much any) Wikipedia procedure so do forgive any procedural errors. Just thought I should make those more invested in the article the me aware that the first link doesn't work. It gives an error 404 (at least it does for me.) Due to the short length of the 'further reading' section I usually check out the sources, so would appreciate if anyone could tell me how to access that website. Thanks! Nerdfighter3 (talk) 21:02, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I take it you mean the first reference. It gives a 403 error, not 404, which means you don't have authority to accesss the source. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is not open source. If you are in the UK you may be able to access it online via your local public library, typically with your library card number. I have amended the ref to show that a subscription is required. Emeraude (talk) 13:16, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Link (Sources) 

message: "Former Home Secretary, Merlyn Rees admits MI5 did wage a dirty tricks campaign against the last Labour government. New allegations of security service involvement in a plan to undermine the Wilson government are disclosed in a book out today, Who Framed Colin Wallace, by Paul Foot. It had to be rushed into print to avoid the new Official Secrets Act, which gets royal assent tomorrow."
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:.... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 02:43, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That's junk information. We already know that there was mutual suspicion between Harold Wilson and some cranky officers in MI5. It doesn't prove that Paul Foot was right about anything, because he had an unintentionally comic talent for being wrong. He was wrong about Hanratty (and would never admit it even after Hanratty's guilt became a matter of undeniable physical and judicial fact) and, though not everyone realises it, he was also wrong about the Bridgewater Four, since the Court of Criminal Appeal overturned their convictions purely because the police broke Judges' Rules during questioning and not due to any doubt about their factual guilt, which the court's narrative verdict went out of its way to confirm, stressing the very similar Chapel Farm robbery mearby, in which the defendants' guilt was self-admitted, and stating in regard to the murder of Carl Bridgewater that, at least in respect of Vincent Hickey (though this implicated the others as his known and admitted associates in crime), 'there was sufficient evidence to have enabled a jury rightly directed to convict.' Paul Foot was an arrogant fool, as you would generally expect of a committed upper-class Communist, and was pretty much wrong about everything throughout his entire life. Khamba Tendal (talk) 19:06, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  MI5 dirty tricks campaign