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by Graham Stewart


  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
/>   sale of Times/Sunday Times 1–5, 9, 16–19, 25, 28–30, 32

  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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