Rusbridger's intelligence, personal sense of higher calling and almost other-worldly self-absorption have played no small part in the stories that have most defined the Guardian and that, under another sort of steward, might have had a much more sceptical reception.

Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue.

The Snowden story, which won the Guardiana Pulitzer Prize, became the realisation of Rusbridger's dream of a brand-building, left-wing-uniting, global and viral story.

Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.

It may take a generation to achieve democracy. But our generation must accomplish this and not pass the buck to the next.

Venezuela has immense talents and resources, and we can help rebuild our democracy.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

We are very supportive of the economic reforms that the Chinese government have talked about.