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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 !
Lambinet virginie 28 rue de monthlery 51200 EPERNAY FRANCE
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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)
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)
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)
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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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)
I added a citation to a review of Richard Ingrams' My Friend Footy by Patrick Marnham in which Marnham says that Foot was pushed out of the Eye by Ingrams for drawing too much on his contact with the "comrades" (other members of the SWP). While Marnham concedes that Ingrams says nothing about this in the book, as well he might in a memoir of a then recently deceased close friend, I don't think there is a valid reason to remove this material as another editor has done. Marnham worked as a journalist on the Eye for many years, it would appear during the period in question, and is the author of a history of the magazine's first twenty years. His article from The Spectator can thus be considered a reliable source even if certain articles in the same magazine, by Rod Liddle say, cannot. Marnham too is identified as the source of this information, as is the usual practice on WP for potentially contentious material. Philip Cross ( talk) 17:52, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
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Paul Foot (journalist) → Paul Foot – The journalist was an important British journalistic and political figure for several years, the comedian is hardly of comparable importance. PatGallacher ( talk) 01:05, 16 November 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. Calidum 19:54, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
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)
"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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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 !
Lambinet virginie 28 rue de monthlery 51200 EPERNAY FRANCE
08.73.18.79.84
[[ == THANK YOU SO MUCH ==]]
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)
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)
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)
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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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)
I added a citation to a review of Richard Ingrams' My Friend Footy by Patrick Marnham in which Marnham says that Foot was pushed out of the Eye by Ingrams for drawing too much on his contact with the "comrades" (other members of the SWP). While Marnham concedes that Ingrams says nothing about this in the book, as well he might in a memoir of a then recently deceased close friend, I don't think there is a valid reason to remove this material as another editor has done. Marnham worked as a journalist on the Eye for many years, it would appear during the period in question, and is the author of a history of the magazine's first twenty years. His article from The Spectator can thus be considered a reliable source even if certain articles in the same magazine, by Rod Liddle say, cannot. Marnham too is identified as the source of this information, as is the usual practice on WP for potentially contentious material. Philip Cross ( talk) 17:52, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was: in this case, consensus not to move the page to the proposed title at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 20:08, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Paul Foot (journalist) → Paul Foot – The journalist was an important British journalistic and political figure for several years, the comedian is hardly of comparable importance. PatGallacher ( talk) 01:05, 16 November 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. Calidum 19:54, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
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)
"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."
<ref name="bufvc/0004900412007">{{cite web |title=Merlyn Rees on MI5 dirty tricks campaign |url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/lbc/index.php/segment/0004900412007 |access-date=26 April 2023 |date=10 May 1989 |website=bufvc.ac.uk |publisher=[[British Universities Film & Video Council]]}}</ref>