It's wonderful the NOTW has had the plug pulled. But it's little more than a human sacrifice; keeps the regulator appeased so Murdoch can absorb the remainder of BskyB. Money matters more than morality for News International. This is lip service.

All the prejudice and bigotry, the kangaroo court manners, the menace and veiled threats, the tyrannical behaviour, which make up the NOTW's call-sign, I'm convinced will get recycled into a Sunday version of the Sun. This thing is hydra-headed.

Still there's something of a Tahrir square like mood of celebration in a certain part of West London right now.

And as a Guardianista, there's only one way to end: it's the Guardian wot done it...