heren was one of a dwindling number of true foreign correspondents, able to spend years at their posts, embedded in the local cultures, and rarely able to return 'home'. his career mirrored the changing nature of "the times", from the years of lord astor's ownership, when stories were filed 'from our own correspondent', through to the years under lord thompson, and finally to the takeover by rupert murdoch when much to his dismay society gossip was allowed into its pages and so beginning the end of its reputation as 'the thunderer'.