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It is probably not of much relevance to the wider world, but this week the Guardian newspaper adopted a new, 'Berliner', format. Fine - but in the course of doing so, the editors decided to drop the Doonesbury comic strip, which has shared space with the 'If' strip, drawn and written by Steve Bell. Both are highly political and often complement one another nicely.

As anyone could have predicted, all Hell broke loose - telephone calls, e-mails, letters, all hit the Guardian from Day 1 (including one from me). As a result a shame-faced Ian Katz admits in today's issue that this was a bad idea and the strip will be re-instated on Monday. Victory for good taste! :-)