Word on the Street: 'F*** Cilla Black', Morley's letter record, Q's Clash reunion trip-up

The journalists on The Guardian have all studiously kept their heads down and lips closed over the "F*** Cilla Black" artwork that adorned the cover of G2. But brave Jim White, a Guardian feature-writer, had no hesitation on Radio 4's Saturday Review in pronouncing the artwork to be "puerile nonsense". On being informed that the Britart artists were getting £500 a throw for the G2 covers, White suggested that underpaid Guardian staffers would be duly outraged and "would be forming an angry queue outside the editor Alan Rusbridger's door".

¿ The return of Phil Hall, former editor of the News of the World, to the arena of the national press as editorial-development director at Trinity Mirror means that he will work with the editors of its five national newspapers. We trust he will be courteous and chivalrous to the editor of the Sunday Mirror, Tina Weaver. She is a former girlfriend.

¿ The world of media is an incestuous one, but not normally quite as incestuous as last Friday's media section in The Times. One page told of how The Times covered the cloning story; another covered the retirement of The Times's chief revise editor.

¿ The practice at the New Statesman and The Spectator of giving regular writers space in the letters columns of their own magazines is an irritating one. But Sheridan Morley deserves credit for what could be a record. He has different letters in the latest issues of both the New Statesman, for which he now writes, and The Spectator, for which he used to write.

¿ The rock magazine Q is this year's victim of the death-at-Christmas problem. The February edition discusses the prospect of The Clash staging a reunion: "They said they'd never get back together: they lied." No wonder the magazine's four-page press release fails to mention the awkward prediction.