Russell Brand (unlike his masters) has redeemed himself with a fulsome and thoroughly convincing apology to Andrew Sachs and the Satanic Slut. He must have been under a lot of pressure –  in the video footage on the mediaguardian site he seems to have lost weight, with something Edvard Munchian about his elongated visage. And, just as puzzling, his beard has grown substantially in the couple of weeks since his misdemeanour. Has he refrained from trimming his stubble in an act of self-deprecation.

Whatever… he’s apologised and resigned, and that’s laudable.

I predict, though, that he will come to some accommodation with the BBC as soon as they start diving up his backside, begging him to return as their link with YOOF before the end of November.

And while on the matter of predictions, you will recall, if you’ve been paying attention that I declared last week that Ozzygate would have fizzled out and been forgotten by Thursday (yesterday).

Did anyone hear a squeak or see a millimetre of footage on the topic yesterday?