On Monday, the Independent’s Ian Burrell mentioned a “cheeky” Daily Mail Insider Blog in his media column. It wasn’t linked, but not difficult to find.

By Wednesday, it had been noted by the FleetStreetBlues blog and three hours later it was no more. Handily enough, Brian Whelan has captured the content of what, as he says, “are apparently the missing blog posts allegedly written by a Daily Mail journo”.