Paul Mackintosh Foot (
8 November 1937 in Palestine –
18 July 2004 at
Stansted Airport) was a
British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the
Socialist Workers Party (SWP). He was the son of
Hugh Foot (who was the last Governor of
Cyprus and, as Lord Caradon, was the UK Ambassador at the
United Nations from 1964 to 1970). He was the nephew of
Michael Foot, former leader of the
Labour Party, and was educated at
Shrewsbury School and at
University College, Oxford.
Contemporaries at Shrewsbury included Richard Ingrams, Willie Rushton and several other friends who would later become involved in Private Eye.
Exposing him in Private Eye was one of Foot's happiest days in journalism. He received hundreds of congratulatory letters from the child abuser's old pupils, many of whom were then prominent in British life.
After his national service in Jamaica, Foot was reunited with Ingrams at Oxford and wrote for Isis, one of the student publications at the University.
