In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

True information does good.

So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.

The one real irritant is that my young children - they also adapt. They adapt to being without their father. That's a hard, hard adaption which they didn't ask for. I worry about them; I worry about their mother.