• Janine Gibson – Seen as the heiress apparent, this year Janine came home from the US to be deputy editor and editor-in-chief of the Guardian website

• Katharine Viner – Replaced Gibson as editor of Guardian US, might she leapfrog her predecessor?

• Emily Wilson – Former UK network editor of the website, now she is Down Under having taken over from Viner.

• Dan Sabbagh – 94/1

• Amol Rajan – Time for a person of colour?

• James Ball – Has written every story of significance in the Guardian for the last 10 years, or so he claims.

• Edward Snowden – You can run a paper from Skype, right?

• Frank Fisher – Right-wing legend who writes most of Comment is Free (in the comments).

• Russell Brand – King of the C U Next Tuesdays.

• Jonathan Freedland – Sound on Palestine.

• Ian Katz – Return of the Prince from the Guardian’s broadcasting arm.

Surely it’s time for the Guardian to have their first non-private school educated editor?