This star of England

Abstract

A former colleague of the late Journalist of the Decade, Robson writes: "Re-reading Paul Foot, only days after his death, what instantly struck me was how his words roar off the page, energising and fresh but above all as ferociously passionate and spot on as the day he wrote them. In that wonderfully direct style, full of wit and brio, one can hear Paul's own spirited voice. It never wavered. It was not a specially tailored public performance; the man, his life, his work, his titanic integrity and generosity were one. This probably explains how Paul Foot sustained - often against the odds - such an epic and courageous journalistic output. It also explains, I think, why so many fellow journalists and readers loved him."