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A truly fitting tribute to Britain's foremost campaigning journalist - righter of wrongs, fighter for underdogs and tormentor of the powerful. -- Roy Greenslade, former editor, <i>Daily Mirror</i> Margaret Renn has written a compelling and highly readable account of my great friend Paul Foot's life as socialist campaigner, journalist and scion of a famous political family. -- Richard Ingrams, co-founder and editor of <i>Private Eye</i> and founding editor of <i>The Oldie</i>

A truly fitting tribute to Britain's foremost campaigning journalist - righter of wrongs, fighter for underdogs and tormentor of the powerful. -- Roy Greenslade, former editor, <i>Daily Mirror</i> Margaret Renn has written a compelling and highly readable account of my great friend Paul Foot's life as socialist campaigner, journalist and scion of a famous political family. -- Richard Ingrams, co-founder and editor of <i>Private Eye</i> and founding editor of <i>The Oldie</i> One of the great British investigative journalists of the 20th century ... The accounts of many of his press campaigns, including about the murders of Blair Peach, Helen Smith and Stephen Lawrence, still make for powerful reading. -- Martin Chilton * Independent * A tremendous force for good ... [Paul Foot: A Life in Politics] is kind, thorough and honest. -- Peter Hitchens * Daily Mail *

A truly fitting tribute to Britain's foremost campaigning journalist - righter of wrongs, fighter for underdogs and tormentor of the powerful. -- Roy Greenslade, former editor, <i>Daily Mirror</i>

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Margaret Renn is a writer and journalist. She worked alongside Paul Foot on Socialist Worker and then at the Daily Mirror from the early ‘80s until 1993. She has since worked at the BBC and produced radio documentaries for Radio 4 and the World Service, including programs on Lockerbie and on corruption. From 2009 until 2015 she was a Visiting Fellow in Investigative Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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