Paul Foot: A Life in Politics by Margaret Renn review revolutionary intellect or posh trot?
Briefly

Of all the awful crimes of the left, none infuriated Cliff like passivity. For people who knew the world was rotten, to do nothing about it was for him the ultimate aberration.
Paul Foot was an unbiddable socialist journalist adept at investigating stories about ordinary people fitted up for crimes they didn't commit, and implacable in indicting governments.
Foot was especially good on New Labour's ruin of public housing and hospitals via the private finance initiative, exposing government betrayals.
Paul Foot's investigative work highlighted injustices while also being critiqued for benefiting from his father's connections within the establishment.
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