CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Preface

  1   A Licence to Lose Money

  2   ‘The Greatest Editor in the World’

  3   Cold Warrior

  4   Ancient and Modern

  5   Fortress Wapping

  6   Fifty-Four Weeks under Siege

  7   Independent Challenges

  8   Sturm und Drang

  9   Simon Jenkins

10   Critical Times

11   The Heart of Europe

12   New Labour, New Journalism

13   War in Peacetime

14   Dumbing Down?

List of Illustrations

Plates

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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