Lots of stuff to get through today, not much time to do it. Here we go.

Julie Burchill will no longer be making me choke on my Saturday morning fry-up. You have no idea how happy this makes me. My only wish is that the Guardian had actually given her the heave-ho, having realised that giving a platform to openly hateful views is not a necessary requirement of a supposedly lefty/liberal newspaper...

It would have been nice, for example, if she had been let go after the following crazed and delusional piece of transphobia - "Lesbianism used to be the one place a girl could get a little me-time, but these days men are having male-to-female sex changes so they can get in on the Sapphic act, too." - truly worthy of Richard Littlejohn.

I was however pleased to discover that the Guardian website now prints any subsequent corrections at the start of archived pieces, thus: "The column below said that the national lottery's community fund tended not to give money to unglamorous groups such as those helping blind servicemen. The fund points out that to date it has given money to 400 ex-servicemen's and veterans' organisations."

Come on Rupert, offer David Aaronovitch a job too!