Gossip and the Guardian, a newspaper from 1963

Now I stopped reading the Guardian in the mid ‘80s, switched to the Independent and near the end of the last century  started reading the Telegraph, not I hasten to add out of a profound ideological change but more because it was the best way of knowing how the “other side thought”.

And during a year when the sections of the press worked hard to discredit journalism and when reporting elections has often been reduced to personalities, I came across this old fashioned restatement of what some newspapers set out to do.

It comes from 1963, when a tired Tory Government was looking decidedly terminal and when were still at the height of the Cold War.

Picture; from the collection of Andrew Simpson