Perrick, Penny 201
Peru 133
Peterborough, Bishop of 208
Pettit, Stephen 449
Phillips, Michael 202–203
Pickering, Sir Edward 37–38, 40, 49, 50, 164, 171, 210, 215, 510–511, 645
Pickering, Ron 330
Pierce, Andrew 476–477, 494, 538
Pigott, Richard 167
Pilpel, Leon 127, 198, 626–627
Pimlott, Ben 315, 338
Pinochet, Augusto 595
Pinsent, Sir Matthew 445
Pinter, Harold 463
Pithart, Peter 144
Pitt, Bill 78
Pittsburgh National Bank 400
Plath, Sylvia 462
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) 151, 152–153, 561
Plommer, Leslie 153
Poland 145–146, 350, 355
Pole-Carew, Christopher 221, 231–232, 236
Porter, Barry 31
Portillo, Michael 484, 485, 504, 550–551, 557–558, 600
Potter, Sarah 444
Powell, Enoch 68, 108, 556
Pravda – A Fleet Street Comedy (David Hare) 115, 183
Prentice, Eve-Ann 588–589
Prescott, John 555
Press Association 164, 250, 552
Press censorship 163–164
Press Council/Complaints Commission 511–514, 516
Preston, Ben 539, 547, 549–550, 606, 608
Preston, Peter 128, 305–306, 431
Pride, Tom 436
Prime, Tony 123
Prince 456
Pringle, James 523, 527, 533
Print unions 10–13, 25
closed shops 86–89, 155–156, 193–194, 219–220, 239–240, 243
computer technology 13, 86–88, 229, 231, 233–234
double-key stroking 13–14, 34, 229, 242, 244
industrial action/strikes 1, 3, 5, 10–14, 48, 60, 81, 83, 85, 89, 152, 155–158, 163, 186–187, 219–220, 223–225, 230, 239, 243–245, 248–250
legally binding contracts 244–245
Murdoch offers Gray’s Inn Road freehold 276–278, 281–282
redundancies 272
and TNL sale 31–34
Wembley rally 265 see also Gray’s Inn Road; Murdoch; NGA; NUJ; SOGAT; Wapping
Prior, James 29, 72, 156
Private Eye 59–60, 101–102, 112, 196
The Prodigy 456
Proops, Marjorie 78
Property boom 320–321
Pulp Fiction (dir. Quentin Tarantino) 464
Punch and Judy (Harrison Birtwistle) 450
Purves, Libby 624
Putin, Vladimir 593
Pym, Francis 125, 129, 133
Pysariwsky, Zoriana 124
Q
Quinton, Lord (Anthony) 181–182
R
Rabin, Yitzhak 561–562
Race Today 74
Racing Demons (David Hare) 463
Railton, Jim 328
Ramsay, Alix 441
Randall, Jeff 543–544, 546
Random House 182
Raphael, Isabel 183
Ratcliffe, Michael 181
Rattle, Sir Simon 448
Raynsford, Nick 262
Reagan, Ronald 58, 67, 133, 146, 148, 155, 160, 213, 215–216, 348, 597
Recession 380, 399, 404–405, 422–423, 472–473
Redgrave, Sir Steven 445
Redwood, John 484, 489, 494
Reed, John 400
Rees-Mogg, William
and Blair 497
Evans’s downfall 117
‘How to Kill a Newspaper’ 16
on judging news 641–642
Maastricht treaty 474–475
and Major 477, 492
and Murdoch 7, 37, 44, 259
and the sale of The Times 3–7, 18, 21–23, 31
as Times columnist 419–420, 423, 514, 552, 608
as Times editor 52, 53–54, 57, 61, 66, 76, 78, 105, 114, 474
Times Europe edition 14
transfer of TNL titles 100
Referendum Party 488
Reich, Steve 450
Reichmann, Paul 324
Reservoir Dogs (dir. Quentin Tarantino) 464
Reuters 7, 84, 238–239, 335
Reynolds Defence (Albert Reynolds) 518–521, 564
Rhodes, Tom 572
Rice, Tom 228, 232
Richards, Geoffrey 98, 235, 245, 248, 266, 290, 292
Riddell, Peter 55, 408–409, 415, 419, 476, 489, 499, 617, 648
Ridley, Nicholas 120, 377, 379–380
Righter, Rosemary 350, 389, 390, 394, 485–486, 526, 562, 567, 586, 608, 624, 648
Riley, John 264
Rippon, Geoffrey 100
Robbins, Chris 269, 271
Robbins Report 76, 105
Robens, Lord (Alfred) 23, 50, 109, 110, 115
Roberts, Anthony 461
Roberts, Peter 372, 435, 437, 608
Robertson, George 263
Robertson QC, Geoffrey 539
Robinson, David 184–185
Robinson, Geoffrey 30, 535
Robinson, Jeffrey 517
Robinson, Mary 564
Robson, Andrew 639
Roche, Billy 463
Rodgers, Bill 76, 164, 317
Roll, Lord (Eric) 23, 30, 31, 50
Romania 353–356
The Romans in Britain (Howard Brenton) 115
A Room with a View (dir. James Ivory) 185
Rosewell, Mike 328
Rothermere, Lord (Harold) 20–21, 22, 24, 272, 412
Routledge, Paul 187–188, 209, 258, 260, 302
Roux, Albert 97
Rowland, Tiny 2, 17, 31–32, 40, 274
Roxburgh, Angus 347
Royal Commission on the Press 6
Royal Geographical Society 121
Royal Opera House 447, 451
Ruda, Mike 85
Rudd, Alyson 443–444
Ruddock, David 414, 435–436, 547, 552, 608
Rusbridger, Alan 426, 469, 520
Ruskin College 274–275
Russell, William Howard 154n 618
Russia 568, 591–593 see also Soviet Union
Rwanda 581–584
S
Saatchi, Lord Charles 458, 460
Saatchi & Saatchi 43
Samaranch, Juan Antonio 326
Sampras, Pete 442
Sampson, Anthony 78
Sampson, Catherine 349, 523
Sands, Bobby 71, 635
Satellite television 185–186, 360–361, 399, 427, 429, 432, 442–444 see also Sky television; Star TV
Saudi Arabia 388–389, 596
Scargill, Arthur 188, 209, 293
Scarman, Lord (Scarman Report) 73–75
Schiff, Dorothy 41
Schmidt, Helmut 70, 353
Schwarzkopf, General Norman 395, 396
Scotland
devolution 499
Holyrood Parliament 501–502
Times edition 500–502
Scott, Peter 121
Scott Report 481
Scottish Daily Express 143
Scowcroft, Brent 354
Scruton, Roger 144, 159
SDP (Social Democratic Party) 76–79, 82, 102, 114, 163–164, 317–318
Seamark, Mick 136
Searby, Richard 21, 35, 99–100, 109, 115, 171
Searjeant, Graham 161–162, 324, 415
Seeber, Liz 88, 106–107, 129, 212, 252
Seely, Michael 202
Selbourne, David 274–275
Selling Hitler (Robert Harris) 178
Serbia 568–571, 576–577, 590 see also Bosnian War; Dayton Accord; Kosovo; NATO
Sereny, Gitta 168–169, 515–516
Sergeant, John 311
Shackleton, Lord (Edward) 121
Shah, Eddy 227–228, 238–240, 273, 298, 301
Shakespeare in Love (dir. John Madden) 465
Shakespeare, Nicholas 453
Sharon, Ariel 154, 563
Shea,
Michael 627
Shearer, Alan 442
Sheehan, Robert 638
Sheffield, HMS 132–133
Sherwood, James 99
Shields, Mick 21
Shore, Peter 223, 308
Short, Clare 158, 394
Short, Nigel 421
Siberian gas pipeline 146
Sieghart, Mary Ann 362–363, 366, 375, 447, 483, 485, 487, 492, 556, 624
Sierra Leone 583
Siete Dias 119
Silkin, John 81–82
Sinclair, David 453–456344, 403, 473
Single currency see also ERM; EMU
Sinn Fein 499, 564–566 see also IRA
Sino-British Declaration 525
Sir Galahad 136
Sir Tristram 136
Skinner, Dennis 290, 539
Sky television (British Sky Broadcasting) 186, 360–361, 399, 401, 411, 426, 427, 442–444
Sloman, Sir Albert 275
Slovenia 569
Smith, Geoffrey 103, 107
Smith, John 29, 32, 100, 405, 408, 482, 499
Smith, Mel 190
The Smiths 453
Smylie, Ben 234
Snoddy, Raymond 263, 304, 426, 531
Snow, Peter 128
Sobers, Garfield 440
SOGAT (Society of Graphical and Allied Trades) 10, 33, 86, 88, 148–149, 156–158, 220, 224–228, 232–233, 236, 241–242, 244–245, 248–250, 253, 265–269, 270–271, 278–284, 287–288, 290–291, 293 see also print unions
Solidarity Movement 145, 350–351
Somalia 579–581
Sorge, Wilfried 169–171
South Africa 124, 159, 560, 566, 583, 627
South China Morning Post 529, 646
South Georgia 121–123, 129
South Korea 329
Soviet Union (USSR) 146–147, 159, 186–187, 215–216, 347–348, 350, 355, 357, 403, 567–568 see also Russia
The Spectator 17, 65, 96, 100, 108, 118, 213, 254, 260, 475, 633
Spice Girls 455–456
Spicer, Sir Michael 475
Der Spiegel 172
Spitting Image 481
Srebrenica massacre 575–576 see also Bosnian War; NATO; UN
La Stampa 61
Stanhope, Henry 120, 124, 136–137
Star TV 429, 529–530
Steel, David 314
Stelzer, Irwin 412
Stephenson, Hugh 45, 51, 55, 101, 160, 274
Stern magazine 167–174, 176–180
Steven, Stewart 475
Stevens, Lord (David) 239, 272
Stoessel, Walter 126
Stone, Professor Norman 178, 352
Stone Roses 454
Stoppard, Tom 183
Stothard, Peter
‘bourgeois triumphalism’ 313
Op-Ed commissions 158–159, 198
print room visit 221
‘promising’ journalist 55, 102, 117, 201, 304, 417
US editor 362, 390
Wapping strike 250
principal leader writer 648
as Times editor
appointment 412–413
assessment of editorship 607–609
background 416–417
Ashcroft affair 536–546
cancer treatment 547–548, 551
and China 523–534
Conservative Philosophy Group 475
‘dumbing down’ 613–614
editorial structure 436
election year (1997) 487–492
endorses Labour 556–557
and John Major 476, 488–490
leaders 648
literary editor 462
Murdoch’s influence 114, 531–534, 645
newspaper pricing 428, 431–432
obituaries 634
online edition 469–470
and Princess Diana 505–506
sackings 418–419
staff re-shuffle 546–547
stands down 607–609
and Tony Blair 483
trainee scheme 340–341
war on terror 602
Times Literary Supplement editor 608 see also the full listing for The Times
Strafford, Peter 120–121, 198
Straw, Jack 263, 338, 518
Strong, Roy 182
Stuart-Smith, Mr Justice (Sir Murray) 287
Stuttaford, Dr Thomas 117, 468
STV (Scottish Television) 9
Sudan 598
Suez 138
Sun 22, 25, 30, 33, 41–43, 77, 647 see also Bouverie Street
and ASLEF 83, 250
bingo 189
circulation 27, 40, 263, 399
Evans’s thalidomide campaign 48–49
Falklands War 123–124, 128, 129, 131, 141
finances 9
general election (1992) 408
journalists’ salaries 285–286
Kinning Park Plant 226
price cut 424–425
and Princess Diana 507
print unions 99
tabloid excesses 367
Versace’s murder 466
Wapping 85, 219, 222, 225–226, 229, 235, 242, 244, 253, 268
Sun-Times see Chicago Sun-Times
Sunday Express 270
Sunday Sport 512
Sunday Times
book reviews 181
circulation 27, 51, 86, 180, 271, 422
election campaign (1983) 164
finances 84–85, 422
Hitler Diaries 168, 173–176, 178, 180
industrial relations 1, 12, 20, 86, 89, 98, 219
Innovation Special 248
‘the journalists’ paper’ 118
and Murdoch 26
Mussolini diaries 168
the Queen and Thatcherism 627
sale 1–3, 6, 18–22, 25, 29, 32
Wapping 234–235, 242, 247–249, 253, 255
Sunday Today 307
Sunni fundamentalism 150
Swann, Sir Michael 4
Sykes, Paul 490
Symonds, Matthew 240, 300–301
Syria 150–152, 155
T
Taheri, Amir 388–389, 597
Taleban 598, 602–605
Tanjug (news agency) 354
Tarantino, Quentin 464
Tavener, John 450
Taylor, Edwin 60, 62
Taylor, Graham 326
Taylor, Ken 226
Tebbit, Norman 309
Terry, Anthony 168, 176
TGWU (Transport and General Workers Union) 233, 250, 266
Thalidomide controversy 48–49
Thatcher, Denis 113
Thatcher, Margaret 14, 28–29, 43, 68, 75, 113–114, 213
Bosnian war and the arms embargo 571
carbon emissions 469
East Germany 352–353
Evans and the Sport Council 113–114
Exchange Rate Mechanism 320, 344–346
Falklands War 120, 122, 124–126, 129, 133, 137, 138
general elections 14, 162–164, 312–316, 318, 346
German reunification 358
leadership challenge 366, 374, 379–384
Lebanon war 155
and the miners 75
monetarist policies 627
and the Monopolies Commission 28–32
and moral high ground 166
and Murdoch 28–29, 43, 113–114, 186
Privileges Committee 309
South African sanctions 627
tribute to Douglas-Home 213
Westland Helicopters 310
Thatcherite policies 65–68, 71, 73, 75, 78, 160–162, 186–187, 215, 265, 293–294, 312–313, 318–320, 343–346, 376–388
‘The Times at 200’ 208
Thomas, Christopher 71–72, 124, 131, 598
Thompson, E.P. 127
Thomson British Holdings 7, 17 see also Thomson Organisation
Thomson, Kenneth (2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet) 17–18, 83
Thomson Organisation
finances 2, 4–5, 8, 14
Thomson, Robert 524, 534
Times editor 607, 623
Thomson, Roy (1st Baron Thomson of Fleet) 3, 7–11, 17, 24, 27, 40, 41, 89, 116, 192–193
Thornton, Clive 277
Thornton, Michael 634
Tieman, Ross 616
Time magazine 518
Time Out 60
The Times (please see main index for additional page references)
Business concerns and management
advertising 42, 84–85, 90, 192, 194, 263–264, 272, 307, 421, 424–425, 430, 437, 470–471, 549, 605
Archive and Record Centre 510, 520–521
bicentenary 206–210
boycotts 263–265, 267, 338, 370
circulation 4, 15, 27, 41, 51–52, 63, 90, 117, 141, 189, 191–192, 194, 198, 206, 263, 271–272, 305–306, 358, 411, 423–425, 433–435, 437, 614
consequences of Wapping revolution 301–304, 307
cover price 272, 411, 422–435, 437
innovation and expansion 294–299
‘La Lumiere’, new office 509–510
marketing 420–421
mergers 18–19
Microsoft deal 432–433
no-smoking policy 436
Portfolio competition 189–194, 425
readership 49, 610–613
redundancies 98–100, 110, 113, 116, 161, 402
Sale and purchase by Murdoch 1–7, 6–9, 17–23, 25, 26, 28–31, 32, 40, 100, 188, 308–9, 363, 401–402 see also Times Newspapers Limited
tabloid press bingo war 189
Coverage
Business news
‘Big Bang’ 323–324
Black Wednesday 477
monetarism 65–70, 75, 114, 160–161, 319–320, 627
Sky TV 360–361
Education
higher 75–76, 479–480
Ofsted 478–479
Europe
European monetary union (EMU) 344, 358, 380–381, 403–404
Euro 403, 472
Euro-sceptics 344, 404, 473–475, 476, 490–491, 493
Europa 61
European Community 344–345, 403
European Parliament 96
Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) 320, 344, 379–381, 472–474
Maastricht treaty 403–404, 473–474, 476
Single currency 344, 403, 473
Foreign affairs
Afghanistan 602–604
Berlin Wall 351–352
bin Laden, Osama 598
Bosnian War 570–572, 574–579, 585–589
Chechnya 592–593
China 348–349, 354, 523–534, 644
Deng Xiaping obituary 527
Cold War 160, 215, 357, 387, 559, 567, 609 see also Soviet Union Gorbachev tribute 568
Crimean War 140
Croatia 574–575
Eastern Europe 346–347, 350–357
East and West (Chris Patten) 530–531
Falklands War 119–137, 140–141, 152, 205
Hitler Diaries 167–180, 641
Hong Kong 350, 503–504, 525–526, 528
Human Rights Act and libel laws (Loutchansky case) 517–521
Iraq 149, 387–388, 389–398
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