Paul had a soft spot for the New Statesman as he was encouraged to read it as a schoolboy in the 1950s, when it was considered very radical under the editorship of Kingsley Martin. Paul wrote occasional pieces, but in the hiatus between leaving Socialist Worker and joining the Daily Mirror, he wrote a number of regular pieces.
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How the peace was torpedoed
In 1982 the sinking of the Argentinian cruiser The General Belgrano scuppered a potential peace deal which would have stopped the Falklands war. A year later. Paul Foot reported on what went wrong.