Michael Foot died this week at the age of 96. He was a writer, rebel, orator, CND supporter, Labour radical, democrat and party loyalist. A great man of the Left, and a notoriously unsuccessful leader of the British Labour Party. Have a listen to this BBC 4 programme about his life, musings from the Guardian’s editors, a great photo gallery on Foot’s political life, and the New Statesman has a collection of obituaries.
