| Description | Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 3 August 1991 - 18 November 1991. Leading articles were published anonymously each day as the collective view of the newspaper.
The following leading articles have no author identified:
*new: 31 August 1991: First among equals (identified as 'VK?')
*new: 24 September 1991: The boxer and the box
*new: 30 September 1991: A wider response is now needed
*new: 30 September 1991: Rediscovering lost values
*new: 1 October 1991: Justice by a unique road
*new: 1 October 1991: The cash we leave behind
*new: 1 October 1991: Shadow boxing
*new: 2 October 1991: They both can make use of the time
*new: 2 October 1991: The barmy requirement
*new: 2 October 1991: A mug shot for safety
*new: 3 October 1991: Is cash still king? (identified as 'MD?')
*new: 3 October 1991: Poverty under corruption
*new: 4 October 1991: A night and a human disaster
*new: 4 October 1991: Seeking to stop a war
*new: 4 October 1991: Paddling up on defence
*new: 5 October 1991: The doctor's anodyne prescription
*new: 5 October 1991: The bad old Japan
*new: 8 October 1991: Looking for the Blackpool sunshine
*new: 8 October 1991: Cut, and cut again
*new: 9 October 1991: Europe's runways (identified as 'VK?')
*new: 22 October 1991: Roads to wreckage
*new: 22 October 1991: Union views
*new: 23 October 1991: When this cruel was was over
*new: 23 October 1991: The case for rationing
*new: 23 October 1991: Industry awakes
*new: 24 October 1991: Crawling along the European kerb
*new: 24 October 1991: Five wise Four men
*new: 26 October 1991: Slander and the better way
*new: 28 October 1991: Beyond the battered sedan (indesipherable squiggle)
*new: 31 October 1991: Duke's a hazard
*new: 1 November 1991: Pay and its perils
*new: 2 November 1991: Hypocrisy at the gates
*new: 2 November 1991: The storm before the calm?
*new: 4 November 1991: Once more into a taxing mire
*new: 4 November 1991: A better way to conserve energy
*new: 5 November 1991: The war that spun out of control
*new: 5 November 1991: Industry expects
*new: 5 November 1991: The ivory triumph
*new: 6 November 1991: A void of pragmatism
*new: 7 November 1991: Caught in the prudence trap
*new: 7 November 1991: Struggling, at seven
*new: 7 November 1991:Wofford's torpedo
*new: 8 November 1991: The tugs of war and the tugs of peace
*new: 8 November 1991: Not just testing
*new: 8 November 1991: King of the board
*new: 9 November 1991: Three votes and one big signal
*new: 9 November 1991: Sanctions on Serbia
*new: 11 November 1991: The debate beyond Ridley
*new: 11 November 1991: Standing by Rushdie
*new: 12 November 1991: The second eleven's lethal armoury
*new: 12 November 1991: Myopia on the march
*new: 12 November 1991: Ring in the old
*new: 13 November 1991: A faraway tragedy, blankly observed
*new: 13 November 1991: Crammed and skint
*new: 13 November 1991: A dream turns sour
*new: 14 November 1991: Mr Major finds a fascinating tide
*new: 14 November 1991: Race within the walls
*new: 14 November 1991: The winter of the Kurds
*new: 15 November 1991: Wanted for murder, somewhere in Libya
*new: 15 November 1991: Modestly recovering
*new: 15 November 1991: The Prince of ploys
*new: 16 November 1991: Down, but in no sense out
*new: 16 November 1991: Kenya in the dock
*new: 18 November 1991: The void that Bush must fill
*new: 18 November 1991: Sentencing and prisons
Generally from Tuesday to Friday three leading articles, with two leading articles published on Saturday and Monday. They appear in column format on the left hand side of the page. 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):
MB - Madeleine Bunting
MD - Malcolm Dean
JG - [John Gittings]
VK - Vic Keegan
DMcK - David McKie
PP - Peter Preston
AR - Alan Rusbridger
MW - [Michael White] |