News UK 16 September 2014 by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Times Newspapers Limited publishes the compact daily newspaper "The Times" and the broadsheet "The Sunday Times". Times Newspapers was formed in 1967 when The Thomson Corporation purchased "The Times" from the Astor family and merged it with "The Sunday Times", which it had owned since 1959. The company was purchased by Murdoch's News International in February 1981. The acquisition followed an intense 21 days of negotiations with the print unions conducted by John Collier and Bill O'Neill. "The Times Literary Supplement", "Times Educational Supplement" and "Times Higher Education Supplement" were
The Times Literary Supplement years ago. It is the most serious, authoritative, witty, diverse and stimulating cultural publication in all the five languages I speak.” "The Times Literary Supplement" has appeared in works of fiction. One of the most backhanded of such mentions appears in the English translation of Samuel Beckett's novel "Molloy" (1953), in which Molloy relates that: ... in winter, under my greatcoat, I wrapped myself in swathes of newspaper, and did not shed them until the earth awoke, for good, in April. The "Times Literary Supplement" was admirably adapted to this purpose, of a neverfailing toughness and impermeability. Even farts made