An instinctive liberal - he was for 25 years also the much-admired chief US correspondent of the Guardian newspaper - he may not have shown much sympathy towards the Reagan presidency, but his main purpose was to be interesting, enlightening and entertaining.
In a question-and-answer session on the website of the Guardian newspaper, he said there had been threats against his life.
Robert Brown, a former police sergeant, told the Guardian that he pulled out of the recruitment process for the Games after seeing it close at hand.
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Early in the Tour, Wiggins raged about anonymous skeptics on Twitter, chiding them for "bone-idleness, " but later in the race he wrote a piece in The Guardian in which he described his cycling ascension and his rejection of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Polly Toynbee of the Guardian accused Charles Moore, editor of the Daily Telegraph, of wilful misinterpretation after he wrote a long attack on the report.
Writing in the Guardian, he said the "hardcore" of those involved were known criminals whose behaviour had not been changed by previous punishments.
John O'Shea of Irish charity Goal told the Guardian newspaper he could not allow aid workers to move into Haiti from the Dominican Republican because he had "no guarantee that the people driving them are not going to be macheted to death on the way down".
During that tenure, he has stood as an impartial guardian of the law.
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He told the Guardian he made the switch after the backers of a proposed British bid to enter the competition appeared to reach a standstill in development.
The unanswered question is why Mr Aitken should have taken such a huge risk in denying the Guardian's claim that as minister of defence procurement he had stayed at the hotel as a guest of the Saudi royal family.
"It is totally unacceptable for bank bonuses to be paid on the back of taxpayer guarantees, " he told the Guardian.
The Guardian quotes a friend of one of the miners who says he was just trying to provide for his family - "people don't go mining for fun", he says.
He also said he was unaware, initially, of a Guardian report that blasted the piece.
Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian, gave the story his staunch support partly because he had for years been arguing that the U.K. press inadequately policed its own standards and would eventually be punished.
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Mr Gove told the Guardian newspaper he wanted to "remove bureaucracy" affecting expansion as part of planned changes to the admissions code.
Later, speaking to the Guardian newspaper, he said the UK should look at following the example of the US if Scotland did break away.
One of those could be the Royal Bank of Scotland, whose chief executive Stephen Hester has told the Guardian newspaper that he expects his bank to face penalties.
He is the youngest member of the French Academy, the official guardian of the language of Voltaire and Flaubert.
He also said there had been some success with the use of "guardian angels" - Nato soldiers who provide a round-the-clock armed guard for their colleagues while they are training their Afghan counterparts.
The explanation offered by the book, due for publication this October, is that he was trapped into a series of ever-escalating lies by the Guardian's determination to nail him for breaching cabinet rules on hospitality.
He insisted, like an American teenager who's signed the "True Love Waits" vow of celibacy until their wedding day, that we must be patient, stop fumbling and hold on for the manifesto, while fluttering his eyelids so that we all know that he's been round the back of the bike shed with the Guardian, and it's all true.
He was surrounded by guys in Mets and Yankees caps in a phalanx of guardian angels.
Goodnight is a stalwart guardian of that culture, so valuable for recruiting talent in this fast-moving competition, but he is also 68.
"He's a dealmaker, he's a brilliant businessman, he's a great strategic mind, " Michael White, of the UK's Guardian newspaper, which broke the hacking story, told CNN.
He and the Tories had nothing to say on the subject of bonuses to FSA during their consultation on the subject but because he was being interviewed by the Guardian, he says what he thinks Guardian readers want to hear.
Friday's share price drop came after High Court judge Mr Justice Vos, who has presided over similar cases brought against News International, said that he would handle all four of the cases against Trinity Mirror, according to reports in the Guardian and Independent newspapers.
Paperwatch: Jackie Ashley writing in The Guardian likens possible contender Kenneth Clarke to the late Mo Mowlam in terms of his popular appeal and warns Labour that he could well be the one to pull in the votes of "floating voters, disaffected ex-Tories and disillusioned ex-Labour voters".
While there have been a number of attempts to unmask the artist -- a Jamaican photographer said he snapped images of Banksy when he visited the island and a reporter at U.K.'s "Guardian" newspaper said he met Banksy (or at least someone claiming to be him) -- they've been exercises in futility.
He is what is known as a "guardian angel", protecting his comrades from the increasing threat of insider attacks.
"Even though there was a lot of grit blowing around, grip levels on the track were not too bad, " he told the Guardian.
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