| Description | Cuttings of each of the Guardian's leading articles with manuscript annotations of the author's initials, 7 March 1992 - 18 June 1992. 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: 9 March 1992: When policy becomes politics
*new: 9 March 1992: The Human Rights Omission
*new: 10 March 1992: Pensions in a life after Maxwell
*new: 13 March 1992: Is it time for another strike at Saddam?
*new: 13 March 1992: Healthier at home
*new: 13 March 1992: Rain stops logic
*new: 16 March 1992: Straight principle
*new: 17 March 1992: Mr Smith picks the winners and losers
*new: 17 March 1992: The Paddy package
*new: 17 March 1992: Big bang, not many dead
*new: 18 March 1992: The spiral turns even more vicious
*new: 18 March 1992: Old flaws, new twists
*new: 18 March 1992: A change in the climate
*new: 19 March 1992: A vote to set the fists pounding
*new: 19 March 1992: The little booklets
*new: 20 March 1992: The figures that just won't go away
*new: 20 March 1992: Then there was one?
*new: 20 March 1992: A carriage out of style
*new: 21 March 1992: Look just a little East, my friends
*new: 23 March 1992: Incoherent Tory campaign
*new: 23 March 1992: 'Left' and 'right' struggle in China
*new: 24 March 1992: When we awake on cold morning
*new: 25 March 1992: Sickly bits in the health diagnosis
*new: 25 March 1992: Rotting, and dangerous
*new: 25 March 1992: Tort for the Cup
*new: 26 March 1992: The little girl in the little movie
*new: 26 March 1992: Porkies and priorities
*new: 26 March 1992: Which dock for Libya?
*new: 27 March 1992: Some very hard cases
*new: 30 March 1992: Time for the real issues to emerge
*new: 30 March 1992: Manifestos are not for eating
*new: 31 March 1992: Hung up on the facts of life
*new: 31 March 1992: The classes for '92
*new: 31 March 1992: Gold and them there bills
*new: 2 April 1992: At last, the billions to rescue Boris
*new: 2 April 1992: Votes: and minds too?
*new: 2 April 1992: Prescribing priorities
*new: 3 April 1992: Crime and the climate in which it breeds
*new: 3 April 1992: Science under strain
*new: 3 April 1992: The eleven month itch
*new: 6 April 1992: Campaign winner Ashdown
*new: 6 April 1992: The need for green fiscal shoots
*new: 8 April 1992: The time, and the price, of change
*new: 9 April 1992: The human calm before the storm
*new: 9 April 1992: Switched off, switched on
*new: 9 April 1992: Without Arafat
*new: 10 April 1992: Japan Inc catches a contagious chill
*new: 10 April 1992: Cash and no credit
*new: 10 April 1992 (first edition): France sets the big test
*new: 10 April 1992 (final edition): A time for change, and change again
*new: 11 April 1992: The harsh facts of victory and defeat
*new: 13 April 1992: Mr Major's sense of balance
*new: 13 April 1992: Bosnia needs help - now
*new: 15 April 1992: The chance to do something for industry
*new: 15 April 1992: Shuffling together
*new: 15 April 1992: Stupefaction in court
*new: 18 April 1992: Beyond the smoke of tabloid battle
*new: 20 April 1992: A real sense of injustice
*new: 20 April 1992: Rule Macedonia
*new: 21 April 1992: Classroom need for one voice
*new: 21 April 1992: Me Heseltine's luxury Rolls
*new: 22 April 1992: A foul inhumanity
*new: 22 April 1992: Just a phone call away
*new: 23 April 1992: Costing the Earth
*new: 24 April 1992: A world beyond the limits of the mind
*new: 24 April 1992: Ms Speaker Boothroyd
*new: 24 April 1992: Fighting on the beaches
*new: 25 April 1992: Making development a can-go area
*new: 27 April 1992: The rocky road to Hong Kong
*new: 27 April 1992: Keeping up with the Joneses
*new: 28 April 1992: The Boothroyd agenda
*new: 29 April 1992: Scrutiny that the banks deserve
*new: 29 April 1992: Not quite the ticket
*new: 29 April 1992: After the Pink
*new: 30 April 1992: The stones beneath a swollen stream
*new: 30 April 1992: Carry over the cash
*new: 30 April 1992: The cuts come again
*new: 1 May 1992: The torch that lights up despair
*new: 1 May 1992: Sitting for Mr Smith
*new: 1 May 1992: The pincers on Four
*new: 2 May 1992: What lies frozen beyond the frame
*new: 4 May 1992: High price of German unity
*new: 4 May 1992: Hard choices in health care
*new: 5 May 1992: A pattern of pain from the islands
*new: 5 May 1992: Berets for Bosnia
*new: 5 May 1992: Unbanning the debate
*new: 6 May 1992: One cute, and scope to be daring
*new: 6 May 1992: Blowing the system
*new: 6 May 1992: Look back in honesty
*new: 7 May 1992: Opening from the Pavilion end
*new: 7 May 1992: A nation of umpires
*new: 8 May 1992: Shush, it's probably still a secret
*new: 8 May 1992: Out of the rubble
*new: 8 May 1992: The Corey succession
*new: 9 May 1992: When the living is much less easy
*new: 12 May 1992: What is he there for?
*new: 13 May 1992: Mr Clarke says the party is over
*new: 13 May 1992: The Queen as pawn
*new: 14 May 1992: Too much gas and too little action
*new: 14 May 1992: The head monitor
*new: 14 May 1992: Rome's road to ruin
- no cuttings at all for 16 May 1992
*new: 18 May 1992: Bosnia must be saved
*new: 18 May 1992: Reducing the taxes at a stroke
*new: 19 May 1992: Bangkok with a touch of Beijing
*new: 19 May 1992: The birth of desperation
*new: 19 May 1992: Doctors in trouble
*new: 23 May 1992: The bubble worth more than a billion
*new: 25 May 1992: The law in their own hands
*new: 25 May 1992: Healthier honours
*new: 26 May 1992: The mafia's victory is Italy's shame
*new: 26 May 1992: Wasting water in a time of drought
*new: 27 May 1992: Freedom, joy and a legacy of squalor
*new: 27 May 1992: More haste, less clarity
*new: 27 May 1992: Overbuying, underselling
*new: 28 May 1992: When good sense does not go far enough
*new: 28 May 1992: Common purpose
*new: 28 May 1992: Appalling evidence
*new: 29 May 1992: Bosnia: limping behind reality
*new: 29 May 1992: Canary or albatross?
*new: 29 May 1992: Cheese on the move
*new: 30 May 1992: An epilogue for the last scene at Stratford
*new: 30 May 1992: The play within the play
*new: 1 June 1992: Stumbling down to Rio
*new: 1 June 1992: Striking attitudes
*new: 2 June 1992: Whitehall: getting tough on the tender
*new: 2 June 1992: The fight for the fighter
*new: 2 June 1992: The Tamils are trapped
*new: 3 June 1992 (early): Ready, and steady, to do more than talk
*new: 5 June 1992: One goose, cooked
*new: 6 June 1992: The royal dogs of mindless war
*new: 8 June 1992: Dubious debate on Delors
*new: 8 June 1992: People matter
*new: 9 June 1992: The mess Maxwell left behind
*new: 9 June 1992; Odium at the last
*new: 9 June 1992: One nation or two?
*new: 10 June 1992: BT and the busy life of Sir Bryan
*new: 10 June 1992: Fighting for the peace
*new: 10 June 1992: The Court in the act
*new: 11 June 1992: Not quite what it's cracked up to be
*new: 11 June 1992: Opting to settle
*new: 11 June 1992: The guided limit
*new: 12 June 1992: The funds that flit from hole to hole
*new: 12 June 1992: The caution of Boris
*new: 12 June 1992: Glory in the Garden
*new: 13 June 1992: The last lap of words for Rio
*new: 13 June 1992: From top to Bottomley
*new: 15 June 1992: Rio: the bucks stop here
*new: 15 June 1992: Liberty and the sins of the few
*new: 16 June 1992: When the promises come to nothing
*new: 16 June 1992: A voice on the campus
*new: 16 June 1992: Tokyo and its troops
*new: 17 June 1992: One swift fusillade kills the messenger
*new: 17 June 1992: Labour's flailings
*new: 17 June 1992: Mandela on the march
*new: 18 June 1992: In need of a rapid response
*new: 18 June 1992: The zoo also closes
*new: 18 June 1992: Hitting fifty
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]
DMcK - David McKie
VK - Vic Keegan
PP - Peter Preston |