By the time the changes came and they--I wish I could quote chapter and verse on the actual time. My feeling is it was about the early 1980s. This was at a time when Eddie Shah who'd been producing newspapers by modern technology, threatened to produce a national newspaper called Today, at the same time as Rupert Murdoch was hand in glove, so it seemed as far as the unions were concerned, in building a new printing press and newspaper production unit at Wapping, and he was going to walk hand in hand he told the unions with this they had nothing to fear, because they were, once the building was completed behind barbed wire fences.

Every day hundreds, I do mean hundreds, of what they were told to be electricians were brought into that building to set up the new editorial and printing systems. In fact they were no more electricians than I was. They were infact computer technologists, who were ready at the drop of a hat to take over when the whistle was blown.