 Coward gave his full blessing, providing Morley with a list of his friends, and another of his enemies, telling him to start with the second first – which would make for a better book.Morley joined "The Times" as deputy features editor in 1973, and then joined "Punch" in 1975 as its drama critic and arts editor, remaining with the magazine until 1989.In the late 1980s, he became a regular arts diarist for "The Times" and was its TV critic from 1989 to 1990.