| Description | Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 19 November 1991 - 6 March 1992. Leading articles were published anonymously each day as the collective view of the newspaper.
The following leading articles have no author identified:
*new: 19 November 1991: A distant door swings
*new: 19 November 1991: Edgy, with some reason
*new: 19 November 1991: Big bills for busy tongues
*new: 20 November 1991: Freedom to do as you're told
*new: 20 November 1991: Concern is not enough
*new: 20 November 1991: Let them eat caviare
*new: 21 November 1991: Play now, and face the hard stuff later
*new: 21 November 1991: Rubble and reproaches
*new: 21 November 1991: The real Pilgrim
*new: 22 November 1991: The year of living more peacefully
*new: 22 November 1991: Drops in a grey ocean
*new: 22 November 1991: A shaming silence
*new: 23 November 1991: The sick man of the Euro band
*new: 23 November 1991: The system's choice
*new: 25 November 1991: The question is if there is a question
*new: 26 November 1991: Silcott and a system in the dock
*new: 26 November 1991: The Right stuff
*new: 26 November 1991: Those little listings
*new: 28 November 1991: The first real test of the will for peace
*new: 28 November 1991: Europe needs wings
*new: 29 November 1991: The year of not falling behind (illegible initials ?DG]
*new: 29 November 1991: Homes out of range
*new: 29 November 1991: Reach back for the stars
*new: 30 November 1991: World threat and world response
*new: 30 November 1991: Minister in the dock
*new: 2 December 1991: When politics is left to the market
*new: 2 December 1991: Power sharing in the looking glass
*new: 3 December 1991: The issue of a home to live in
*new: 3 December 1991: Cold comfort on the farm
*new: 3 December 1991: The Palm Beach story
*new: 4 December 1991: The first great test for a free Ukraine
*new: 4 December 1991: Primary purpose
*new: 4 December 1991: Lost in the service?
*new: 5 December 1991: The final freedom, the last spectre
*new: 5 December 1991: Straight to the Chief
*new: 5 December 1991: Wolfgang Amadeus
*new: 6 December 1991: A pause at the end of the empire
*new: 6 December 1991: They won't lie down
*new: 7 December 1991: Now the words must form a pattern
*new: 9 December 1991: Messages behind Maastricht
*new: 9 December 1991: More than saying sorry
*new: 10 December 1991: One great centre cannot hold
*new: 10 December 1991: Bedlam and bars
*new: 10 December 1991: The last one left
*new: 12 December 1991: The only show in European town
*new: 12 December 1991: An ecu for prosperity?
*new: 14 December 1991: The social charter for Britain
*new: 16 December 1991: Travels with Mr Baker
*new: 16 December 1991: Arlott: artist and storyteller
*new: 17 December 1991: Flapping plays the IRA's game
*new: 18 December 1991: Falling into line behind Bonn
*new: 18 December 1991: Rivers of no return
*new: 18 December 1991: The lowest of the low
*new: 20 December 1991: A chill to blight the buds of recovery
*new: 20 December 1991: Testing, testing
*new: 21 December 1991: How Boris pothers off the cuff
*new: 21 December 1991: Christmas querules
*new: 23 December 1991: Not Mr Lamont's fault
*new: 23 December 1991: Doctors' funds and the card vote
*new: 24 December 1991: The Waite account
*new: 24 December 1991: The lost thousand
*new: 27 December 1991: Mikhail Gorbachev and his legacy
*new: 31 December 1991: The year of the enemy within
*new: 31 December 1991: And home alone
*new: 2 January 1992: Still time to invest for next January 1
*new: 3 January 1992: The hung verdict and the vital hook
*new: 3 January 1992: Settling scores
*new: 3 January 1992: Anybody can win
*new: 4 January 1992: Prudence laced with panic
*new: 4 January 1992: A good man ill used
*new: 6 January 1992: Can Labour find its white heat?
*new: 6 January 1992: A rebellion too far
*new: 8 January 1992: When hope is blown out of the skies
*new: 8 January 1992: Revaluing devaluation
*new: 8 January 1992: Cover stories
*new: 9 January 1992: Steel in the mesh of the market
*new: 9 January 1992: Mr Bush's nasty turn
*new: 9 January 1992: Be jolly Johnny
*new: 10 January 1992: Partners don't grow in the Pacific
*new: 10 January 1992: The points for Paddy
*new: 10 January 1992: Chores out of class
*new: 11 January 1992: The bombers the world passes by
*new: 11 January 1992: Homes in the range
*new: 13 January 1992: High time for sense on the Falklands
*new: 13 January 1992: Green thoughts from Mr Major
*new: 14 January 1992: Can tanks ever protect freedom?
*new: 14 January 1992: Steaming off the rails
*new: 14 January 1992: Ungolden silence
*new: 15 January 1992: Not as good as they like to pretend
*new: 15 January 1992: Playing the Saddam card
*new: 15 January 1992: The rigging of rice
*new: 16 January 1992: The breech birth of two nations
*new: 16 January 1992: The trouble with women
*new: 16 January 1992: The food of strife
*new: 17 January 1992: The battle of the prudent boxes
*new: 17 January 1992: The phased approach
*new: 17 January 1992: Mr Shamir's seesaw
*new: 23 January 1992: A heave on the primary tiller
*new: 23 January 1992: The perils of Charlie
*new: 23 January 1992: A moment to choose
*new: 24 January 1992: The folly of leaving coal on the rocks
*new: 24 January 1992: Blind eyes to Nelson
*new: 24 January 1992: The doctors down below
*new: 25 January 1992: The perilous end game of freedom
*new: 25 January 1992: For trial, by jury
*new: 27 January 1992: Weapons without targets
*new: 27 January 1992: Who will inherit the dearth?
*new: 28 January 1992: So we pass by on the other side
*new: 28 January 1992: Where's the beef?
*new: 28 January 1992: A voice to be heard
*new: 29 January 1992: Debates to disturb a sleepy lagoon
*new: 29 January 1992: Casting the first stone
- NO LEADERS AT ALL 30 JANUARY 1992
*new: 31 January 1992: A time for boldness - and some optimism
*new: 31 January 1992: Independent inspection
*new: 31 January 1992: Dealing with China
*new: 1 January 1992: The old on fortune's wheel
*new: 1 January 1992: A duller coming of age
*new: 3 February 1992: Confection rather than connection
*new: 3 February 1992: What we have lost
*new: 4 February 1992: What they failed to do on defence
*new: 4 February 1992: The price of not paying up
*new: 4 February 1992: At last, some real meat
*new: 5 February 1992: Germany and a dose of bad medicine
*new: 5 February 1992: Plowright's problems
*new: 5 February 1992: A last defence
*new: 6 February 1992: Long ago and now better forgotten
*new: 6 February 1992: Simulating success
*new: 6 February 1992: Forty years on
*new: 7 February 1992: Why the harm might outweigh the good
*new: 7 February 1992: Growth by transplant
*new: 7 February 1992: Advantage Maskell
*new: 8 February 1992: Europe: the forgotten agenda
*new: 8 February 1992: Giving the kick the boot
*new: 10 February 1992: The music goes round and round
*new: 10 February 1992: Aids cant and candour
*new: 11 February 1992: Soldier, sailor, teacher, nurse
*new: 11 February 1992: Nato in a new context
*new: 11 February 1992: Danger overhead
*new: 12 February 1992: The sticks and the carrots of training
*new: 12 February 1992: Chaos in the Casbah
*new: 12 February 1992: One rather unwise man
*new: 13 February 1992: First the promises, then the bill
*new: 13 February 1992: Stuck in City mud
*new: 13 February 1992: The Duke of Granada
*new: 14 February 1992: A tragedy that does not have to happen
*new: 14 February 1992: No home to call your own
*new: 14 February 1992: Detaching Kashmir
*new: 15 February 1992: The military murk over Minsk
*new: 15 February 1992: Mr Cook stirs the broth
*new: 17 February 1992: Voting for the sullen sameness
*new: 18 February 1992: Killing the way of doing business
*new: 18 February 1992: Bullying the BBC
*new: 18 February 1992: Arsenic and old rice
*new: 19 February 1992: The puzzle of another path to travel
*new: 19 February 1992: The ordeal of Mr Kiszko
*new: 19 February 1992: Warsaw's big wobble
*new: 20 February 1992: A cry of anger from the snows
*new: 20 February 1992: The game for the names
*new: 20 February 1992: Telling and paying
*new: 21 February 1992: Taking the sickness out of health
*new: 21 February 1992: Blood in the blue berets
*new: 21 February 1992: The figures of failure
*new: 22 February 1992: At last, the police bear grim witness
*new: 22 February 1992: De Klerk and the precipice
*new: 24 February 1992: Opting out of Scottish debate
*new: 24 February 1992: Reading rooms and failing standards
*new: 25 February 1992: Soft on rhetoric, hard on facts
*new: 25 February 1992: The choice of no return
*new: 25 February 1992: Stay here and finish
*new: 26 February 1992: Mr Baker digs in
*new: 27 February 1992: A quart of students in the pint pot
*new: 27 February 1992: Boomerang economics
*new: 28 February 1992: Lousy now, and much worse later
*new: 28 February 1992: The corpse still walks
*new: 28 February 1992: One stroke of luck?
*new: 29 February 1992: One man's bribe can be total poison
*new: 2 March 1992: Into a minor chord
*new: 2 March 1992: Saving the elephant
-NO LEADERS AT ALL 4 MARCH 1992
*new: 5 March 1992: Billions squelching down the slipway
*new: 5 March 1992: Where the votes are
*new: 5 March 1992: Not quite the ticket
*new: 6 March 1992: Abortion: the reasons are a revolution
*new: 6 March 1992: Hung up and hung over?
*new: 6 March 1992: The managers spot the ball
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'. From Saturday 29 February 1992 the Saturday leading article is a single article, published across the top third of the page under the heading 'Comment and Analysis, The Guardian' with the date.
The authors identified in this volume are (in alphabetical order):
MD - Malcolm Dean
JG - [John Gittings]
DG - [David Gow]
VK - Vic Keegan
DMcK - David McKie
PP - Peter Preston
MW - [Michael White] |