Death and Memorials
Foot, a resident of Stoke Newington, died of a pulmonary aneurysm while waiting at Stansted Airport to begin a family holiday in Ireland. He was 66 years old.
A tribute issue of the Socialist Review, on whose editorial board Foot sat for 19 years, collected together many of his articles, while issue 1116 of Private Eye included a tribute to Foot from the many people with whom he had worked. Three months after his death, on 10 October 2004, there was a full house at the Hackney Empire in London for an evening's celebration of his life. The following year, The Guardian and Private Eye jointly set up the Paul Foot Award for investigative or campaigning journalism, with an annual £10,000 prize fund.
Foot is buried in Highgate Cemetery, London, a few yards from Karl Marx's tomb.
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