Kammala wannan jumlar: "The Sunday Times" ya goyi bayan sanya makamai masu linzami na Amurka a sansanoni a Burtaniya bayan Tarayyar Soviet ta girka SS-20s a Gabashin Turai, kuma ta soki kamfen din sake farfadowa don Rage Makaman Nukiliya. Neil kuma ya rubuta editorials goyon bayan
Amurka ta mamaye Grenada saboda zai dawo da dimokiradiyya a can, duk da adawa daga Hugo Young. Neil ya amsa wa Young cewa yana son matsayin editan "The Sunday Times" ya zama "neo-Keynesian a cikin manufofin tattalin arziki, mai tsattsauran ra'ayi a cikin manufofin masana'antu, mai sassaucin ra'ayi kan al'amuran zamantakewa da Turai da Atlanticist a kan manufofin waje". A shekarar farko ta Neil a matsayin editan jaridar, "The Sunday Times" ta bayyana ranar da aka tura makamai masu linzami, ta fallasa yadda Mark Thatcher ya ba da ribar daga kasuwancinsa na tuntuba zuwa asusun banki kuma ya ba da rahoto game da muguntar Robert Mugabe a Matabeleland. Neil kuma ya buga abubuwan da aka cire daga "Jima'i da Kaddara" na Germaine Greer da kuma daga tarihin rayuwar Francis Pym na anti-Thatcher, da kuma nazarin "Patels of Britain", bikin nasarar al'ummar Asiya ta Burtaniya.