Brief letters: Leonard Cohen’s Anthem | Champagne socialists | Betting on high blood pressure | Relatives at Wimbledon | Country diary’s play on words
October 2021
TV review
Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution review – the ruthless rise of No 10’s odd couple
One was a plucky rock’n’roller, the other a lover of social justice. Together, they led Labour to a landslide victory in 1997, as a cast of veteran insiders recall in rose-tinted fashion
June 2021
Llew Smith obituary
Labour MP in the Welsh radical tradition with a clear view of the causes important to his constituents
December 2019
If you must compare Corbyn to a past Labour leader, it isn’t Michael Foot
Owen Hatherley
This defeat leaves Labour support unrecognisable from 35 years ago
Lewis Baston
May 2019
Other lives
Gerald Isaaman obituary
Other lives: One of the last local newspaper editors who lived and breathed his “patch’
September 2018
Labour figures slam claim that Michael Foot was paid by Soviets
Jeremy Corbyn, Neil Kinnock and John McDonnell condemn re-emergence of claim eight years after ex-Labour leader’s death
February 2018
Letter: Ian Aitken obituary
Giles Oakely writes: The first time I met Ian Aitken (obituary, 23 February), in 1995, it was obvious how much affection and admiration he had for Michael Foot
September 2017
A brush with greatness
The lunchtime I spent with Michael Foot at Dylan Thomas's house
It’s April 1997, west Wales, and a well-read old man with a shock of white hair wants to tell Steve Dubé about a dear old friend
June 2017
That supposedly ‘suicidal’ 1983 Labour manifesto
Letter: Tim Barnes says it wasn’t Michael Foot’s policies that caused his election defeat
May 2017
From the Guardian archive
Michael Foot defends Labour's manifesto – archive, 1983
17 May 1983: The Labour leader claims political opponents are using scare tactics and running a smear campaign
April 2017
Will Theresa May really kill Labour off in this election?
Letters: Tribune was well to the left of those trying to revive it today
November 2016
Greenslade
Why Farage and Trump have dominated the media
Roy Greenslade
Huge coverage by newspapers, in company with TV and radio news outlets, has helped to provide the demagogues with that all-important factor: credibility
August 2016
If we must relive the 1980s, at least we get Stranger Things
Hannah Jane Parkinson
The parallels between Jeremy Corbyn and Michael Foot are almost all false
Paul Mason
July 2016
Michael Foot memorial vandalised with swastikas
Stone tribute in Plymouth to the late Labour leader has been defaced with extremist graffiti
May 2016
Orgreave and the pickets of Saltley
Letters: Initiating a crisis is patently more serious than responding incompetently to a crisis
February 2016
The week in radio: Sunday Feature: Keeping in Steppe; Private Passions; The Life Scientific
Melancholy pervaded the air in Mongolia, and Robert Harris revealed a soft spot for Amy Winehouse and Michael Foot
October 2015
Lord Healey obituary
Labour’s defence secretary in the 1960s, chancellor in the 70s and deputy leader in the 80s whose hopes of the top job were dashed by the left
