| Description | Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 27 February 1990 - 11 June 1990.
The following leading articles have no author identified:
*new: 1 March 1990: Labour's choice (identified as 'JG?')
*new: 19 March 1990: Major need for new medicine
*new: 19 March 1990: Fast lane democracy
*new: 30 March 1990: How one light went out in London
*new: 18 April 1990: Showman Smith (identifed as 'PP? VK')
*new: 25 April 1990: A pledge honoured (identified as 'JG?')
*new: 27 April 1990: Caught in the act (identified as 'MD?')
*new: 28 April 1990: The chance at Dublin
*new: 30 April 1990: Have ticket, must travel (identified as 'MK? VK?')
*new: 2 May 1990: Hostages and the bigger pictures
*new: 3 May 1990: At sea in the Baltic (identified as 'JG?')
*new: 16 May 1990: The first hand on the stable door
*new: 31 May 1990: Backwards to the next move forward (identified as 'MK???')
*new: 2 June 1990: Where's the real beef
*new: 4 June 1990: Gains of a failed experiment (identified as 'must be PP!' with word 'instrinstically' underlined in text)
*new: 5 June 1990: What you get for what you give (identified as 'PP?')
*new: 5 June 1990: Talking to Satan (identified as '?JG')
*new: 6 June 1990: Sometimes on a Sunday
*new: 8 June 1990: The farce has some serious moments
Generally three leading articles were published Tuesday - Friday (across the top third of the page), with two leading articles published on Saturday and Monday (in a column on the left side of the page). Leading articles were published anonymously each day as the collective view of the newspaper. Researchers should note that leaders do not necessarily express the personal views of their writers. They were published under the heading 'Comment' rather than the traditional heading 'The Guardian'.
The authors identified in this volume are (in alphabetical order):
MD - Malcolm Dean
JG - [John Gittings]
VK - Vic Keegan
MK - Martin Kettle
DMc/McK/DMcK/DM - David McKie
PP - Peter Preston |