Mutatu Mutandis – or, Worse News at the ‘Observer’
Colin Legum, 19 July 1984
“... up his quarrel with Trelford (or at least gave every appearance of having done so), and turned his anger on the independent directors, describing them as ‘troglodytes’ and anachronistic ‘garden gnomes’. Threatening to cut their fees, from £4000 to £1000, he suggested that they were an encumbrance and had to be got rid of. But how? They can’t be ... ”