OPINION - London's lesson is change or die — and it's true for the Standard too

I did two spells at the Evening Standard, the first in the late 1980s, the second, as editor, between 2012 and 2017. In that first period of time, we covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, the Big Bang and its consequences, and the drama of Princess Diana, still using typewriters and hot metal.