| Description | Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 24 September 1990 - 4 January 1991.
The following leading articles have no author identified:
*new: 26 September 1990: Not just white but deathly pallid
*new: 2 October 1990: Plugging the great divide
*new: 3 October 1990: Together into the great unknown
*new: 4 October 1990: The real root of rising crime
*new: 5 October 1990: Rush to judgment
*new: 13 October 1990: An asset stripped
*new: 15 October 1990: Waiting for RoboKarp
*new: 16 October 1990: Winning away but losing at home
*new: 16 October 1990: Green in judgment
*new: 16 October 1990: It's never too late
*new: 18 October 1990: Seen but not heard (identified as 'JG?')
*new: 18 October 1990: The weed rampant (identified as 'VK?')
*new: 19 October 1990: Seeing the way to fly safely
*new: 20 October 1990: The end of an old song (identified as 'PP?')
*new: 25 October 1990: A pound misspent (identified as M Phil?)
*new: 1 November 1990: Can he make the system work
*new: 2 November 1990: A duty dodged (1st edition)
*new: 6 November 1990: Silent victims
*new: 17 November 1990: The family beneath a single roof
*new: 22 November 1990: When the only way is the hard way
*new: 22 November 1990: Sizing the Italian job
*new: 4 December 1990: The Big Challege
*new: 4 December 1990: Not so good in Sofia
*new: 6 December 1990: A horse off the course
*new: 11 December 1990: Rights at the heart (identified as DMcK which is then scribbbled out and replaced with 'MD?')
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
DMcK/D McKie - David McKie
VK - Vic Keegan
M Phil - Melanie Phillips
PP - Peter Preston |