Legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, with publisher Katherine Graham, in 2001. Photograph: Zuma/Rex
Legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, with publisher Katherine Graham, in 2001. Photograph: Zuma/Rex
Sat 17 Apr 2021 04.00 EDT
I am going to assume you are a Guardian reader, given that you are at this moment reading the Guardian. Whenever I meet Guardian readers, they invariably ask me about my fellow Guardian writers: what’s Tim Dowling like? (
Extremely scary.) Have I ever met Polly Toynbee? (No, because she lives in a castle guarded by dragons.) Do I eat lunch with Marina Hyde? (She doesn’t eat lunch: she’s a vampire.) But I am never asked about my editors.