The Record’s style of journalism was typical of its time: nothing too wordy, nothing too demanding of its readers, but plenty of news and gossip, and plenty of opportunities for a young left-wing writer like Paul to develop a more popular writing style than Oxford had encouraged. He stayed in Glasgow for three years, before returning to London and the national dailies produced in Fleet Street.
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Slamming the door on hope
Paul Foot’s first by-lined article in the Daily Record 8 November 1961