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.

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

The government plans to bring in a new science, technology and innovation policy in 2013.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.