Has the season of goodwill reached the Mail's Ephraim Hardcastle?

The Daily Mail has apologised for an Ephraim Hardcastle diary item which wrongly attributed a quote about Holocaust victims – "I have no sympathy for Holocaust victims as they lacked the initiative to get out" – to the late father of Jemima Khan, Sir James Goldsmith. Thursday's Hardcastle column contains the following item: "Following my item on December 7 in which I claimed that the late Sir James Goldsmith had remarked that victims of the Holocaust 'lacked the initiative to get out', I would like to clarify that he said no such thing. A number of Sir James's relatives were murdered in the Holocaust, and he counted two Holocaust survivors among his closest friends. As his family has pointed out, he would never have made these remarks. My apologies to the family for any upset caused." Monkey hears that an amicable resolution was reached after the PCC stepped in to negotiate. Well, it is the season of goodwill.