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Paul Mackintosh Foot (8 November 1937 – 18 July 2004) was a British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). ==Early life and education== Foot was born in Haifa, Palestine, during the British mandate.〔Richard Stott ("Foot, Paul Mackintosh" ), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', January 2009〕 He was the son of Hugh Foot (who was the last Governor of Cyprus and Jamaica and, as Lord Caradon, the British Ambassador to the United Nations from 1964 to 1970) and the grandson of Isaac Foot, who had been a Liberal MP. He was the nephew of Michael Foot, later leader of the Labour Party,〔(Obituary: Paul Foot ), ''The Economist'', 25 July 2004〕 with whom the younger Foot was close. He spent his youth at his uncle's house in Devon, in Italy with his grandmother and with his parents (who lived abroad) in Cyprus and Jamaica. He was sent to what he described as "a ludicrously snobbish prep school, Ludgrove (Wokingham in Berkshire ), and then to an only slightly less absurd public school, Shrewsbury, in Shropshire."〔Introduction ''Words as Weapons'' ISBN 0-86091-527-1〕 Contemporaries at Shrewsbury included Richard Ingrams, Willie Rushton, Christopher Booker and several other friends who would later become involved in ''Private Eye''. Anthony Chenevix-Trench, subsequently the Headmaster of Eton College, was Foot's Housemaster at Shrewsbury between 1950 and 1955, a time when corporal punishment in all schools was commonplace. In adult life, Foot exposed the ritual beatings that Chevenix-Trench had given. Nick Cohen wrote in Foot's obituary in ''The Observer'': "Even by the standards of England's public schools, Anthony Chenevix-Trench, his housemaster at Shrewsbury, was a flagellomaniac. Foot recalled, 'He would offer his culprit an alternative: four strokes with the cane, which hurt; or six with the strap, with trousers down, which didn't. Sensible boys always chose the strap, despite the humiliation, and Trench, quite unable to control his glee, led the way to an upstairs room, which he locked, before hauling down the miscreant's trousers, lying him face down on a couch and lashing out with a belt." Exposing him in ''Private Eye'' was one of Foot's happiest days in journalism. After his national service in Jamaica, Foot was reunited with Ingrams at University College at the University of Oxford, where he read jurisprudence,〔 and wrote for ''Isis'', one of the student publications at the University. He briefly edited ''Isis'', resulting in the publication being temporarily banned by the university authorities after Foot began to publish articles which found fault with university lectures.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Foot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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