As editor of The Times in the later 1980s, he did so much to make The Independent a success. He believed that we were talking about the Brompton Oratory, which made our conversation even more confusing for a while. With a loss of power has come a loss of authority, and into that vacuum the strange beliefs come rushing. In some forms, as when we look at the moral imperatives of the climate emergency, this seems obviously true. She put him off until the following day, but he missed that appointment because he had killed himself.

Source: The Times September 08, 2022 23:20 UTC