A round-up of the political, cultural and sporting year of 1993, with a representative section from the new tabloid section Guardian 2. In 1993, The Guardian had a hat-trick of What the Papers Say awards (Will Hutton, Maggie O'Kane, Ed Vulliamy) and won the Newspaper Focus Outstanding Achievement Award. Also, in a Mori poll of newspaper editors, Peter Preston was voted the Editors' Editor.