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.

Israel cannot be a democracy if it occupies land of other people.

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.

As a guy that's the 10th of 11 kids, families work through problems by talking and communicating; so, too, does the government.

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.