Editing and Design (Harold Evans) 49
Education Act (1988) 318–319
Edwards, Eddie ‘the Eagle’ 329
Edworthy, Sarah 183
EETPU (Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union) 156–157, 228, 231–232, 237, 240, 244, 248, 261, 287, 293
Egypt 152, 597
Ekberg, Peter 98
Eliot, T.S. 183–184
Elizabeth II, Queen 112, 209–210, 627, 634
Ellis, Terry 236
Elton, John 455
Emerson, Sally 417, 418
Emery, Fred 55, 66, 77, 81, 94, 95, 102–103, 105, 111, 127, 131, 136, 195
Emin, Tracy 459, 460
Employment Act (1980) 156, 226
Enders, Thomas 122, 126
The English Patient (dir. Anthony Minghella) 465
English, Shirley 501
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit (Martin Wiener) 49
English National Opera 447
Eno, Brian 461
ERM (Exchange Rate Mechanism) 320, 344, 379–381, 472, 481
Euro-sceptics 344, 404, 473–475, 476, 485, 490, 493, 495
European Community 343, 358, 380, 403, 620 see also European Union
European Convention of Human Rights 517, 520
European Monetary System 69 see also ERM
European monetary union (EMU) 344, 358, 380–381, 403–404
European Union 475, 489–490, 498, 570 see also European Community
Evans, Harold
background 47–51
Active Newsroom 49
Editing and Design 49
Good Times, Bad Times 112–113, 117, 188–9, 217
and Israel 149
marriage 64
and the Mussolini hoax 168
negotiations for The Times purchase 31, 32, 34
in New York 116
and Poland 145–146
and Sunday Times 17, 18, 21–24
Murdoch’s influence 95–99, 101, 113–115, 118, 644
thalidomide campaign 48–49
supports Murdoch’s Wapping action 260
as Times editor
appointment 52
assessment of editorship 102, 104, 106–108, 111, 113–118
budget allocation 94–95
cold composition 87–88
Denis Thatcher’s planning application 113
dirty tricks 107
downfall 116–118
and Gerald Long 83–4, 96–98
growth strategy 52–53
incurring Thatcher’s displeasure 113–114
in the Law Courts 52–53
lead in petrol campaign 105, 539
leader column battles 103–105
leadership 44, 53–4, 58–9, 92–94, 102, 106–108, 140
‘maximum irritation’ theory 53, 118
Parliamentary Privileges 308–309
Portfolio 189–190
personal attacks and allegations 101–102
political position 64–69, 77, 79
redesigning the layout 59–61
royal wedding 62–63
staff changes 54–57, 109–115, 416, 418
transfer of TNL titles 98–100
‘vertical journalism’ theory 53, 117–118 see also the full listing for The Times
Evans, Michael 390, 392, 589, 603, 647
Evans, Reg 62
Evans, Richard 203, 308–309, 325
Evening Standard 20, 24, 135, 475
Express Newspapers 26 see also Daily Express; United Newspapers
Eyre, Richard 464
F
Faber Book of Reportage (John Carey) 154
Fair Trade Act (1973) 27
Faith and Power (Edward Mortimer) 149
Falklands War 79, 114, 118, 119–141, 152, 155, 205, 391
Fallon, Ivan 234, 298
Fantoni, Barry 200
Farrell, Stephen 585
Fat Boy Slim 456
Fayed, Dodi 504
Fayed, Mohammed 481
Feldman, Erik 190
Felton, David 258, 303
Fenton, James 182
Fieldhouse, Admiral Sir John 130
Financial Times 12, 18–19, 90, 91, 96, 128, 162, 163, 181, 192, 214, 220–221, 240, 273, 298, 306–307, 316, 322, 358, 380–381, 408, 410, 422, 426, 429
FT.com 471, 642
Finch, Hilary 449
Fischer, August 402, 432
Fish, Jonathan 328
Fisk, Robert 124, 150–155, 176, 333–338
Fitzgerald, Dr Garret 72
Fitzpatrick, Barry 98
Fleet, Kenneth 323–325
Fletcher, Martin 390
Flynn, David 432
Fletcher, Duncan 440
Follett, Toby 538–539, 541, 544
Foot, Michael 2, 33, 66, 76, 80–81, 114, 147, 163–165, 181, 314
Foot, Paul 142
Forbes, Brian 261
Ford, Richard 345, 373
Foster, Brendan 441
Foster, Jodie 59
Four Weddings and a Funeral (dir. Richard Curtis) 465
Fowler, Lord (Norman) 477
Fox, Norman 201–202, 325–326
Fox film and television 229, 297, 360, 399, 430
Franks, Alan 201
Franks Report 138
Fraser, Hugh 31
Frayn, Michael 463
Freedom Forum 531–532
Friedman, Milton 75
Frost, Bill 572
Fuchs, Vivian 121
Fukuyama, Francis 356, 559
The Full Monty (dir. Peter Cattaneo) 465
Fuller, Simon 455
G
Gaddafi, Colonel Muammar 334
Gallagher, Noel 455
Galliano, John 466
Gallipoli (dir. Peter Weir) 35–36
Galloway, George 317
Galtieri, General Leopoldo 121–122, 133 see also Argentina; Falklands War
Gang of Four see SDP
Garrick Club 57
Gascoigne, Paul 442
GCHQ Cheltenham 158
Geddes, Diana 76
Gemayel, Bashir 153
General Belgrano 131–133
General elections
(1979) 14
(1983) 162–164, 405
(1987) 312–318, 405
(1992) 346, 404–409
(1997) 487–493
(2001) 554–556
Genocide see Iraq; Kosovo; Rwanda; Serbia; Srebrenica massacre
Geraghty, Sean 156
Germany 350, 569 see also East Germany; Kohl, Helmut
Gibbs, Frances 373, 647
Giles, Frank 50, 54, 96, 98–99, 114, 128, 164, 173–175, 178
Giles (Sunday Express cartoonist) 270
Gillespie, Bill 231, 248
Gilligan, Andrew 521
Gilmour, Sir Ian 309
Giscard d’Estaing, Válery 69–70
Glasgow Herald 31
Gledhill, Ruth 647
Glendinning, Victoria 183
Glover, Stephen 240, 300–301, 411, 417, 432, 614
Glyndebourne 452
Goldsmith, Sir James 2, 17, 65, 488–489, 493
Gooch, Graham 326
Good Times, Bad Times (Harold Evans) 112–113, 117, 188–189, 217
Goodbody, John 325, 328, 330, 440–441
Goodwin, Noel 449
Goose Green 135–136
Gorbachev, Mikhail 147, 216, 318, 347–348, 351–352, 354, 357, 394, 567–568 see also Cold War; Gulf War; Reagan, Ronald; Russia; Soviet Union; Thatcher, Margaret
Gordon, Angela 199, 255, 258, 302
Gormley, Antony 462
Gould, Philip 553
Gove, Michael 485–487, 489–490, 501, 540, 547, 550–552, 565, 566–567
GPMU (Graphical, Paper and Media Union) 293
Graham, Katharine (Kay) 5–6, 230–231
Grainger, Percy 199
Grant, Hugh 465
Grant, John 94, 105, 195, 512, 639
> Graves, David 123
Gray, John 356
Gray’s Inn Road
closure threat 35
demarcation rules 89, 294–295
Murdoch offers freehold to print unions 276–278, 281–282
new site talks 5, 223
poor morale 85, 102
print capacity 249
property assets 25
sold to ITN 297
TNL papers 19, 33, 52 see also Good Times, Bad Times; Print unions, industrial action/strikes
The Greatest Newspaper in the World! 208
Greene, Lord (Sidney) 23, 50, 100
Greenoak, Francesca 359
Griffin, Charles 56
Griffith-Joyner, Florence 331
Griffiths, Paul 449–450
Grigg, John 315, 339–340, 611, 632–633
Grimond, Lord (Jo) 30, 315
Gross, Michael 468
Grunwick dispute 226
Guardian 12, 18, 26, 51, 60, 61, 78, 79, 98, 101, 128, 140–141, 163, 191–192, 239, 273, 276, 305–306, 312, 370, 390, 410, 426, 429, 433, 531, 642
Guardian Unlimited 469, 471
Gulf War 388–398 see also Iraq
Gullikson, Tom 204
H
Haddad, Major Saad 154
Hague, William 494–495, 535, 537, 538, 540, 542–543, 545, 550–551, 556, 557
Hahn, Frank 66
Haig, Alexander 126, 129
Haley, Sir William 104, 239
Halliwell, Geri 456
Hama, Syria 150–151
Hamas 561
Hames, Tim 485, 540–541, 551, 556, 586, 648
Hamilton, Adrian 55, 81, 116, 162
Hamilton, Alan 260, 507
Hamilton, Neil 481, 491, 543
Hamilton, Sir Denis 7–8, 17, 19–20, 21–23, 28, 84, 87, 99, 116
choosing a Times editor 45–46, 48, 50
Wapping move 260
Hamlyn, Michael 372, 560
Hammond, Eric 231–232, 240, 244, 248, 261–262, 283, 293
Hammond, Professor Norman 262, 637
Hands, David 201, 327
Hanrahan, Brian 135
Happy Mondays 454
Hard Labour (Robert Kilroy-Silk) 339
Hardy, Bert 222–223, 255
Hare, David 115, 183, 463
Hargrove, Charles 69
Harrison, George 456
Harmsworth, Vere see Rothermere, 3rd Viscount
HarperCollins 182, 530
Harpers & Queen 101
Harris, Derek 616
Harris, Gillian 501
Harris, Robert 178
Harrow School 190
Hart, Gary 601
Hartwell, Lord (Michael Berry) 240–241, 300, 306
Harvey, Andrew 373
Harvey, Marcus 458
Hastings, Sir Max 135, 137, 140, 273, 300, 306, 339, 431, 477, 485
Hastings, Michael 183
Haughey, Charles 72
Havel, Vaclav 353, 357
Haviland, Julian 124, 162, 164, 311
Hawkes, Nigel 373, 468
Heald, Tim 183
Healey, Denis 82, 314
Healy, Pat 157, 164, 258, 260
Heath, Edward 31, 75, 78, 208, 528
Heath, Michael 100
Heidemann, Gerd 168–170, 172, 176, 180
Henderson, Sir Nicholas 176
Hendrie, Michael J. 637
Henman, Tim 441
Hennessy, John 203
Hennessy, Peter 4, 92, 108
Hensmann, Jan 170
Herald and Weekly Times Group 36, 38
Heren, Louis 3, 45–46, 51, 55, 105, 108, 618
Heseltine, Michael 222, 309–310, 379, 382–385, 489, 493–494
Heseltine, William 627
Hetherington, Alastair 166
Hick, Graeme 439
Hickey, Owen 46, 93, 96, 103–104, 339, 648
Hickey, William (Michael Leapman) 92, 101
Higgins, John 91, 198, 447, 449, 453, 632, 634
Higgins, Stuart 564
Hill, George 314
Hillier, Bevis 91
Hilton, Anthony 161
Hinckley, John 59
Hinton, Les 432, 527, 548, 598–599, 647
Hirst, Damien 459, 460
Hitler, Adolf 553–554
Hitler Diaries 167–180, 641
Hitler’s Speeches and Proclamations (Max Domarus) 167
Hoddle, Glen 521
Hogg, Sarah 303–304, 476
Hoggart, Paul 460
Hoggart, Simon 481
Holden, Anthony 55, 56, 60, 64, 81, 92, 102, 105, 107, 112, 117, 118, 418
Holmes, Richard 183
Holroyd, Michael 178
Holt, Oliver 443
Homosexuality 633–634
Honecker, Erich 346, 351
Hong Kong 503–504, 523, 525–529, 532–533
Hopkins, Michael 451
Hopkirk, Peter 145
Hornsby, Michael 355
Horton, Brian 55, 92, 94
Howard, Anthony 632–633, 635–636, 639–640
Howard, Michael 142, 488, 495, 518
Howard, Philip 92, 118, 181–183, 257, 261, 365, 371, 628
Howe, Darcus 74
Howe, Sir Geoffrey 65, 96, 319, 345, 381–382, 385–386, 528
Howson, Peter 574
Hoy, Mike 235, 246, 285, 303, 304, 360
Huckerby, Martin 73, 258–259
Hughes, Rob 443
Hughes, Simon 491
Hughes, Ted 462
Human Rights Act (1998) 517, 520
Hume, Cardinal Archbishop Basil 369
Hume, John 564
Humphries, Barry 178
Hungary 355 see also Eastern Europe
Hunnicutt, Gayle 369
Hunt, Rex 122
Hurd, Douglas 383, 384–385, 386, 525, 572
Hussain, Nasser 440
Hussein, Saddam 149, 386–390, 396–398, 561, 597 see also Gulf War; Iraq; Kuwait
Hussein, King of Jordan 125
Hussey, Lord (Marmaduke) 13–14, 50, 86, 89, 107, 283
I
Imperial War Museum 574
Independent 238, 240, 298, 300–304, 305–307, 312, 316, 333, 337, 357, 359, 363, 365, 370, 410, 411, 420–424, 427, 429–430, 433–434, 453, 607, 632, 643
Industrial action 1, 3, 5, 10–14, 48, 60, 81, 83, 85, 89, 152, 155–158, 163, 187, 219–220, 223–225 see also Murdoch; NGA; NUJ; SOGAT; The Times; Wapping
Ingham, Bernard 123, 310, 312, 318, 552
Ingrams, Richard 102
An Inspector Calls (Stephen Daldry) 463–4
Institute for Economic Affairs 65
Institute of Fiscal Studies 405
Institute of Journalists 155, 283
International Criminal Court 591, 595
Internet 468–471, 642–643
IPC (International Press Corporation) 40
IRA (Irish Republican Army) 70–72, 338, 499, 563–566 see also Adams, Gerry
Iran 387, 597–598
Iraq 149, 386–397, 481, 597 see also Gulf War
Ireland see Northern Ireland
Irvine, Derry (later Lord Chancellor) 255
Irving, David 168, 174, 177, 179
Isaacs, Jeremey 185
Isaacs, Tony 224, 231
Islam 150–151, 155
Intifada 560
fundamentalism 595–598, 604 see also al-Qaeda; bin Laden, Osama
Islamic Jihad 335, 561
Israel 149, 150–155, 334, 560–563 see also Middle East
Ivens, Martin 343, 394, 476, 485
Izetbegovic, Alija 568, 578
Izvestia 147
J
Jackson, General Sir Mike 589
Jacobs, Eric 28
Jacobson, Philip 390–391, 395
Jagger, Sir Mick 453
Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi Immanuel 177
James, Cathy 11
James, Edward 205
Jaruzelski, General Wojciech 145
Jay, Peter 6
8
Jenkins, Clive 56
Jenkins, David 330
Jenkins, Peter 128
Jenkins, Roy (Lord Jenkins of Hillhead) 76, 78, 79, 317
Jenkins, Simon
editor-in-waiting 364, 366
as Times columnist 471, 473, 476, 493, 571, 575, 601–604, 648
as Times editor
analysis of The Times 368–371, 374, 417, 418
assessment of editorship 413–415, 416
background 367–368
leader writers 374–375
Murdoch’s influence 645
obituaries 634
‘paper of choice’ 369–372
paper’s finances 363, 401–402
party for Michael Seely 203
sceptical Tory paper 374–375
standard of English 371–372, 435
three-year contract 411–415, 607 see also the full listing for The Times
Jiang Zemin 527–528, 532
JIC (Joint Intelligence Committee) 122
John Paul II, Pope 136, 146
Johnson, Ben 329–330
Johnson, Boris 341
Johnson, Daniel 353, 357, 375, 419, 421, 462, 476, 485–486
Johnson, Frank 56, 59, 65, 79, 91, 117, 118, 164–165, 339
Johnson, Paul 17, 65, 96, 213, 254, 477
Jones, Colonel ‘H’ 135
Jones, Richard 451
Jones, Stuart 205–206
Jones, Tim 72
Jones, Wyn 279
Joseph, Lord (Keith) 65
Journalists of The Times (JOTT) 4, 111
Junor, Sir John 113, 366
K
Kabila, Laurent 583
Kahan Commission 154
Kaletsky, Anatole 373, 381, 404–405, 408, 415, 423, 473, 486, 489, 492, 499, 604
Kapoor, Anish 462
Karadzic, Radovan 575
Karzai, Hamid 605
Kasparov, Garry 421
Kaufman, Gerald 37, 163
Kavanagh, Professor Dennis 316
Keating, Harry 183
Keating, John 231, 242
Keays, Sarah 165
Kee, Robert 141
Keene, Raymond 421, 638
Kellner, Peter 133, 263
Kelly, David 521
Kelly, Rachel 481
Kelner, Simon 643
Kemsley, Lord (James Gomer Berry) 19
Kennedy, Dominic 537
Kennedy, John F. 58
Kennedy, Edward 204
Kenny, Dr Anthony 144, 208
Kent, Monsignor Bruce 148
Kervin, Alison 444
Keys, Bill 33
Khomeini, Ayatolah 597
Kiley, Sam 579–583, 585
Kilroy-Silk, Robert 338–339
Kingston, Miles 56, 117, 261, 303, 629
Kinnock, Glenys 165, 315
Kinnock, Neil 165, 213, 262, 265, 277, 290, 314, 315, 317, 364, 376, 394, 405–408
Kirkpatrick, Jeane 126
Kissinger, Henry 64
Knight, Andrew 241, 247, 299, 306, 363–364, 367, 401–402, 412, 424, 432, 435
Knightley, Philip 173
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