The History of the Times: The Murdoch Years

389

Ibid., pp. 18, 26.

390

Harris, Gotcha!, p. 56.

391

Hudson and Stanier, War and the Media, p. 178.

392

Robert Kee, letters to the editor, The Times, 14 May 1982.

393

Taylor, Changing Faces, p. 237.

394

Address by Edward Cazalet at Charles Douglas-Home’s Memorial Service, 25 November 1985.

395

Jessica Douglas-Home, Once Upon Another Time, p. 11.

396

The Times, 22 October 1982.

397

Ibid., 19 September 1981.

398

Ibid., 17 December 1981.

399

‘Can We Help Poland?’, leading article, The Times, 23 September 1981; ‘What the West Should Do’, leading article, The Times, 17 December 1981.

400

Harold Evans to Rupert Murdoch, 17 January 1982, Evans Day File A759/ 9329.

401

The Times, 13 August 1982.

402

‘Trade Across the Curtain’, leading article, The Times, 16 November 1982.

403

Michael Binyon, quoted in TNL News, September 1982.

404

The Times, 12 November 1982.

405

‘Enter Mr Andropov’, leading article, The Times, 13 November 1982.

406

‘The Morality of Deterrence’, leading article, The Times, 19 October 1982.

407

Harold Evans to Owen Hickey, Richard Owen, Brian Horton, 5 November 1981, Evans Day File; Harold Evans, Good Times, Bad Times, p. 237.

408

‘Lebanon for the Lebanese’, leading article, The Times, 14 June 1982.

409

‘Israel’s Pre-Emptive Strike’, leading article, The Times, 9 June 1981.

410

Robert Fisk to the author, interview, 21 September 2004.

411

TNL News, March 1983.

412

Robert Fisk to the author, interview, 21 September 2004; Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation, pp. 183–7.

413

Telegram from Robert Fisk, 25 February 1982, HME 1/19.

414

Brian Horton to Harold Evans, 5 March 1982, HME 1/19.

415

Fisk, Pity the Nation, pp. 183–7.

416

‘The Best Assad We Have’, leading article, The Times, 15 February 1982.

417

‘Israel Erupts’, leading article, The Times, 8 June 1982; ‘An Unbalanced Policy’, leading article, The Times, 10 June 1982.

418

‘An Unbalanced Policy’, leading article, The Times, 10 June 1982.

419

The Times, 8 June 1982.

420

Ibid., 15 June 1982.

421

Edward Mortimer, ‘Why the West should fear the shame of the Arabs’, The Times, 8 June 1982.

422

The Times, 20 September 1982.

423

Fisk thus joined the illustrious Times company of William Howard Russell’s report of the Battle of Balaclava and Charge of the Light Brigade, November 1854; Nandor Ebor’s dispatch on Garibaldi’s liberation of Palermo, June 1860; and James (Jan) Morris on the conquest of Mount Everest, June 1953.

424

‘After the Massacre’, leading article, The Times, 20 September 1982.

425

Ibid.

426

Brenda Dean to all Fathers of chapel working under NPA Agreement, 25 June 1982, 6985/21.

427

‘An Unlawful Interruption’, leading article, The Times, 12 August 1982.

428

‘All Our Tomorrows’, leading article, The Times, 3 January 1983.

429

Hugo Young to Douglas-Home, 16 February 1985, Douglas-Home Papers.

430

Douglas-Home/Clare Short correspondence, 26 March and 2 April 1985, Douglas-Home Papers.

431

Peter Stothard to Douglas-Home, 13 April 1983, Douglas-Home Papers.

432

Seth Lipsky, ‘Welcome Back Thunderer’, Wall Street Journal, 14 November 1985.

433

Leading article, Spectator, 2 November 1985.

434

The Times, 4 March 1993.

435

Richard Davy to the author, 2 January 2005.

436

‘Not the Age of The Times’, New Statesman, 11 January 1985.

437

Rupert Murdoch to the author, interview, August 2003. Other accounts render the expletive variously.

438

‘The International Framework’, leading article, The Times, 11 February 1983.

439

‘Beyond the Budget’, leading article, The Times, 8 February 1983.

440

Graham Searjeant to the author, interview, 11 January 2005.

441

Lawson, The View From No. 11, p. 208.

442

‘The Pains of Privatisation’, leading article, The Times, 22 November 1982.

443

‘Selling at a Discount’, leading article, The Times, 28 October 1982.

444

‘The Love that Labour Lost’, leading article, The Times, 6 June 1983.

445

The New Hope for Britain, Labour Party 1983 general election manifesto.

446

The Times, 1 December 1982.

447

‘All Their Tomorrows’, leading article, The Times, 8 June 1983.

448

Ivor Crewe and Anthony King, SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party, p. 498.

449

Giles, Sundry Times, p. 230.

450

The Times, 3 October 1983.

451

Michael Foot to Douglas-Home, 15 September 1983, Douglas-Home Papers.

452

Leading article, The Times, 7 October 1983.

453

Graham Paterson to the author, interview, 18 September 2002.

454

Enid M. Macbeth to the Douglas-Home, 15 October 1983, ref. 3627/2/12. Mrs Macbeth was, however, won over by Douglas-Home’s reply and wrote to tell him she would be continuing with the newspaper-reading habit of her lifetime after all (letter, 25 October 1983).

455

Douglas-Home to Alastair Hetherington, undated, Douglas-Home Papers.

456

The Times, letters to the editor, 15 October 1983; W. F. Deedes, Dear Bill, p. 283.

457

Sunday Times, 1 May 1983; Robert Harris, Selling Hitler, pp. 234–6.

458

Colin Webb to the author, interview, 20 February 2003.