| Description | Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 13th November 1986 - 25th June 1987. 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:
13 November 1986: Shultz on the dotted line
15 November 1986: Going under down under? (identified as PC?)
20 November 1986: One or twon things that won't happen
27 November 1986: When will they ever learn?
27 November 1986: Forgetting Wapping
27 November 1986: Is it or driving?
4 December 1986: The Tehran tornado, and debris
4 December 1986: What Neil Kinnock said
6 December 1986: Equivocation is the name of the game
9 December 1986: Which spy in the sky?
10 December 1986: Two tales from two cities
18 December 1986: On pastures artificial.... (identified as PC?)
19 December 1986: No life for Nimrod after ASR400
22 December 1986: Test ban onus is on the US
23 December 1986: On the streets of Shanghai
2 January 1987: Thatcher's new election year smile
3 Januray 1987: Princess Push-off
7 January 1987: Questions of blood
20 January 1987: Victims of the pace of change
20 January 1987: Sorry, wrong numbers
20 January 1987: Insider stealing
20 January 1987: French on the menu
21 January 1987: Mr Hurd reopens a horror
21 January 1987: The Worm in the boom
21 January 1987: Diamonds are for never
22 January 1987: A private word for Big Jim
22 January 1987: The political earth moves
23 January 1987: Spies in the sky, heads in the sand
23 January 1987: Paths to Perdition
24 January 1987: Reagan's dog days of drifting
24 January 1987: The elemental Dr Watson
26 January 1987: time to talk again to Assad
27 January 1987: Sir Frank gives the green light
29 January 1987: The state of the President
5 February 1987: Up a notch on chemicals and tests
6 February 1987: Oddities amid the turmoil
6 February 1987: Kicking out the jams
7 February 1987: The final throes of Wapping
7 February 1987: Defeated by default
7 February 1987: Gonolas of the people
9 February 1987: More trouble in store for prisons
9 February 1987: the grim politics of dark basements
10 February 1987: The old man all at sea
10 February 1987: How wide ther prison gate?
10 February 1987: A vote for Dizzy's friend
11 February 1987: The phones kept ringing
11 February 1987: The state of the mainland
12 February 1987: Winning the pyjama game
12 February 1987: Madame Cyn's delightful bin
13 February 1987: The camp on the abyss
13 February 1987: Tactics and strategies
14 February 1987: Sources close to complete confusion
14 February 1987: Alliance doubt, but no unity on replacement
14 Febuary 1987: Beat, not bench, is priority
17 February 1987: When generals blow the gaffe
18 February 1987: The rituals of let's pretend
19 February 1987: Nothing left to reform?
20 February 1987: Suck thumbs, here comes Charlie
20 February1987: Squealings and feelings
21 February 1987: Truckin' to Holland
21 February 1987: And what is Syria succeeds?
21 February 1987: A sure winner at Greenwich
25 February 1987: Painful but needed legal clarification
25 February 1987: Talking about Mid-East talks
28 February 1987: Champagne and shivers with Rosie
28 February 1987: The new man at the BBC
28 February 1987: And the man after Newman
19 February 1987: The blood red and the green
20 March 1987: A new cruise conundrum
27 March 1987: Shaking up legal aid
28 March 1987: The trouble with picking a date
28 March 1987: Right place to draw the rights line
31 March 1987: That old pay magic
2 April 1987: Say in London as in Moscow (identified as MK?)
3 April 1987: Five years on, witht he wounds healing
3 April 1987: Poll frenzy but still questions are avoided
14 April 1987: Unappealing suggestion (identified as PC?)
17 April 1987: The jury loves Amy
17 April 1987: Halfway to the future
18 April 1987: The old carthourse and the dinosaur
24 April 1987: Zero for imagination
25 April 1987: The heart of the Potter
28 April 1987: They keep shooting the messenger
28 April 1987: Arms and the same two men
28 April 1987: Snub a dub, dub
29 April 1987: The job of defending freedon
29 April 1987: Scenes in an ante-chamber
29 April 1987: New hopes, old lamps
29 April 1987: Unwelcome Waldheim
30 April 1987: The kind of inquiry we need
30 April 1987: The politics of security
30 April 1987: Who runs the Tigers?
1 May 1987: Suspending Sharon (identified as PC?)
5 May 1987: Digging for soap (identified as PC?)
2 June 1987: Wrapped ina neutral flag
10 June 1987: Verdict: If she can do it, so can we
Generally three leading articles were published Tuesday - Friday, with two leading articles published on Saturday and Monday. They were published under the heading 'Comment' rather than the traditional heading 'The Guardian'.
The authors identified in this volume are (in alphabetical order):
PC - Peter Cole
DG - David Gow
VK - Vic Keegan
MK - Martin Kettle
DMcK - David McKie
PP - Peter Preston
GDT - Geoffrey Taylor
DV/DVV - Dan van der Vat |