I wrote this appreciation of Michael Foot last year. The media ridicule of this good man was a key waymark in this nation’s journey to despising integrity and honesty in politicians, and instead worshipping only slick media presentation.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/05/michael_foot.html
Even the coincidence of the broadcast of Murder in Samarkand with renewed national debate on our collusion with torture, did not break through the UK media’s blacklisting of me and my eye witness and documentary evidence that the policy of intelligence from torture had direct ministerial direction from Jack Straw.
Here is Russia Today showing what the UK media will not allow you to see:
http://rt.com/Politics/2010-03-03/uk-torture-citixens-guantanamo.html