Last of his kind?  

Goodbye, then, Michael and thank you for everything. Listening to the warm tributes being paid to Michael Foot today, I was reminded of two things. Firstly, what a remarkable, super-intelligent, thoroughly committed man he was. Secondly, what a despicable, rotten, nasty campaign the Tory press and  most of the rest of the media waged against him during his three years as Labour’s leader. The way Foot was portrayed  in the media  brought shame to the entire media establishment and for many people, this marked the beginning of the deep malaise we witness today whereby neither the media or the politicians trust each other and the public trusts  very littke it sees, hears or reads. So to watch the media today reporting  on the media coverage Foot received was more than a little  sickening – and it was all done with a straight face.   We will probably never see the likes of...