Eye eye, Marr

It looks like Private Eye will sell well in Shepherd's Bush and Westminster this week. The Mail seems to have scored the scoop on formally revealing that Andrew Marr had a "super-injunction", which he's now no longer interested in defending; but reading between the lines, the Mail's "challenge" to Marr, came after news that the Eye was ready to go to court on the matter.

Mr Marr decided to go public after being contacted by another publication – thought to be the satirical magazine Private Eye – which planned to challenge his injunction, taken out in 2008 against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail. As that would have involved further legal action, he decided, after discussing the issue with his wife, to walk away from the controversial gagging order.

Others have been bolder earlier; Guido Fawkes has had the story on his blog, unchallenged, and with more detail than the Mail has given, since January 2008.