| Description | Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 19 June 1992 - 1 October 1992. From 17 September 1992 there are no annotated cuttings, leaving the author anonymous. 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.
The following leading articles have no author identified:
*new: 19 June 1992: The Major world of easy rides
*new: 19 June 1992: And Sweden makes free
*new: 19 June 1992: Prime site, prime test
*new: 20 June 1992: Dublin and a dozen different questions
*new: 22 June 1992: Moment of truth for De Klerk
*new: 22 June 1992: Playing the charter card
*new: 23 June 1992: Staying on for a real purpose
*new: 23 June 1992: The Bosnis for Boris?
*new: 23 June 1992: Don't shoot the servant
*new: 24 June 1992: Can the law bring safer sex?
*new: 24 June 1992 (early edition): The wrecker of the peace
*new: 24 June 1992: The London conundrum
*new: 24 June 1992 (final edition): Rabin must hit the ground running
*new: 25 June 1992: The need to fight to make the peace
*new: 25 June 1992: One member, one fudge
*new: 25 June 1992: The Names of the blame
- no cuttings at all for 26 June 1992
*new: 27 June 1992: There's no business like no business
*new: 29 June 1992: Mitterand on the high wire
*new: 29 June 1992: The contrite realism of Lisbon
*new: 30 June 1992: Algeria's drift turns to death
*new: 30 June 1992: One man and his daughter
*new: 30 June 1992: Count Three and stay
*new: 1 July 1992: Beyond a desparately fragile peace
*new: 1 July 1992: Life, death and sixteen
*new: 1 July 1992: A tale of two punts
*new: 2 July 1992: Six months of rather hard labour
*new: 2 July 1992: The secrets of Trevi
*new: 2 July 1992: The Bard, by order
*new: 3 July 1992: The rival just down the corridor
*new: 3 July 1992: Grim days in Glasgow
*new: 3 July 1992: The end of the old taboo
*new: 4 July 1992: If you're EFA in a jam, try to scram
*new: 6 July 1992: When inertia rules the summits
*new: 6 July 1992: Wanted: more troublemakers
*new: 7 July 1992: Paris and a crisis without judgement
*new: 7 July 1992: The truth of the tooth
*new: 7 July 1992: One little conundrum
*new: 8 July 1992: Kit doesn't fill this hole in the heart
*new: 8 July 1992: Chinese chequers
*new: 8 July 1992: Options on Sunday
- no cuttings at all for 9 July 1992
*new: 10 July 1992: The curtain at the Palace gates
*new: 10 July 1992: Gloom at the top
*new: 10 July 1992: Making allowances
*new: 11 July 1992: The call of the angry old bird
*new: 13 July 1992: From Little Rock, with a little hope
*new: 14 July 1992: We need a more urgent reponse
*new: 14 July 1992: The price of obduracy
*new: 14 July 1992: Lord Snooty snuffs it
*new: 15 July 1992: Running late on the private railway
*new: 15 July 1992: Mr Rabin's first bid
*new: 15 July 1992: A Fox at bay
*new: 17 July 1992: Remission, not recovery
*new: 18 July 1992: Safety first, and the need to dare
*new: 20 July 1992: Bosnai - the unfinished agenda
*new: 20 July 1992: Solving Labour's PR problems
*new: 21 July 1992: A lousy case would be lousy law
*new: 21 July 1992: The Mafia cancer
*new: 21 July 1992: Heavy metal
*new: 22 July 1992: It should have been quicker and cheaper
*new: 22 July 1992: The Clinton account
*new: 22 July 1992: Labour divided
- no cuttings at all for 23 July 1992
*new: 24 July 1992: A Mellor tide, or a tiny trickle?
*new: 24 July 1992: The case for turning soft
*new: 24 July 1992: Responding to Rabin
*new: 28 July 1992: The order of the boot for Boutros?
*new: 28 July 1992: Justice and a better way
*new: 28 July 1992: The hump and the umpires
*new: 29 July 1992: The tide of despair is at our gates
*new: 29 July 1992: A Patten of chaos
*new: 29 July 1992: Who signed for VAT?
*new: 30 July 1992: Why the roof is still falling in
*new: 30 July 1992: Tragedy in parallel
*new: 30 July 1992: The halls of the brave
*new: 31 July 1992: Any old vision, any old bones?
*new: 31 July 1992: Drugging for gold
*new: 31 July 1992: The old man of the Wall
*new: 1 August 1992: Channel 4 and the real public interest
*new: 1 August 1992: What's left on the Left
*new: 3 August 1992: The ultimate Japanese model
*new: 3 August 1992: When the children die
*new: 4 August 1992: A strike as the irons grow cold
*new: 4 August 1992: Change or decay
*new: 4 August 1992: Have giro, will travel
*new: 5 August 1992: Fiddling whilst the children perish
*new: 5 August 1992: One age for bowing out?
*new: 5 August 1992: A moat and a note
*new: 6 August 1992: Ashworth: special in its squalor
*new: 6 August 1992: Peaces can be made
*new: 6 August 1992: Eldorado, Court 14
*new: 7 August 1992: Busy doing nothing
*new: 11 August 1992: The next torch (identified as Gillian + PP - who is Gillian?)
*new: 13 August 1992: Bingham of the Rolls (identified as M[el])
*new: 14 August 1992: The rise of a dank despair (identified as M[el])
*new: 14 August 1992: The code of fairer cops (identified as Gillian)
*new: 20 August 1992: Advance with caution
*new: 22 August 1992: Silence won't male people feel safer
*new: 22 August 1992: Mr Bush fails to add up
*new: 27 August 1992: Standing firm and saying little
*new: 27 August 1992: All right for some
*new: 27 August 1992: Why choose Lord Owen?
*new: 29 August 1992: Peace may still have to be imposed
*new: 29 August 1992: Tokyo gives a lead
*new: 31 August 1992: Time for debate on the BBC
*new: 31 August 1992: Paper chasing in the health service
*new: 1 September 1992: Mr Smith's over-loyal opposition
*new: 1 September 1992: Not in my bailiwick
*new: 1 September 1992: Bank charges
*new: 2 September 1992: Current concerns
*new: 4 September 1992: Take two days off the holiday
*new: 4 September 1992: Sub-themes in Taiwan
*new: 5 September 1992: Yugoslavia: the crisis will grow worse...
*new: 5 September 1992: ...and may yet spread
*new: 8 September 1992: United in spending?
*new: 8 September 1992: One-day wonders
*new: 9 September 1992: The road that leads to bloody carnage
*new: 9 September 1992: Across the divide
*new: 9 September 1992: Prices in reverse
*new: 10 September 1992: The black hole in the Nordic Triangle
*new: 10 September 1992: A bonny blank
*new: 10 September 1992: The doors also open
*new: 17 September 1992: The wrong policies, the wrong result
*new: 18 September 1992: The bigger list of damaged goods
*new: 18 September 1992: Comparisons that count
*new: 18 September 1992: Harrogate openings
*new: 19 September 1992: When the binding of fear falls away
*new: 19 September 1992: There can't be a secret
*new: 21 September 1992 (first edition): Gently seeking a better way
*new: 21 September 1992: A close shave, and many bleeding
*new: 21 September 1992: Norman alone
*new: 22 September 1992: We shall all of us choke on fear
*new: 22 September 1992: The rates for the job
*new: 22 September 1992: Matters of death
*new: 23 September 1992: Mr Smith has a defining moment
*new: 23 September 1992: Coal and the logic hole
*new: 23 September 1992: Pay beyond the pips
*new: 24 September 1992: Britain doesn't make it anymore
*new: 24 September 1992: Mud and tears
*new: 24 September 1992: What does a real mate do?
*new: 25 September 1992: Getting ever tougher at the top
*new: 25 September 1992: An exit inevitable
*new: 25 September 1992: One cut too far
*new: 26 September 1992: The nature of the project is changing
*new: 28 September 1992: Right and wrong, he had to go
- cuttings for 28 September 1992 incomplete (torn off)
*new: 29 September 1992: One sweet victory after another
*new: 29 September 1992: Romania's bloody noses
*new: 29 September 1992: An uncivil sort of list
*new: 30 September 1992: The black hold of a major indecision
*new: 30 September 1992: The stamp of authority
*new: 30 September 1992: The rocket goes up
*new: 1 October 1992: The whole system needs repairing
*new: 1 October 1992: The fall of Mr Collor
*new: 1 October 1992: A scapegoat untethered
Generally two leading articles were published on Mondays, three from Tueday to Friday and one on Saturday. From Monday to Saturday the leading articles appear in column format on the left hand side of the page, under the heading 'Comment' rather than the traditional heading 'The Guardian'. On Saturdays they appear 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]
VK - Vic Keegan
DMcK - David McKie
PP - Peter Preston
MW - [Michael White] |