If a week is a long time in politics, two months is an age; but it may be many moons before relations improve between Ed Miliband and Mail newspapers, reports Hugh Muir's Guardian diary. First there was that Exocet fired by the Daily Mail's Paul Dacre, who famously self-harmed with wild claims that Miliband's father hated Britain. Then there was the Mail on Sunday, which rubbed salt into a very open wound by sending a reporter to canvass the views of attendees at the private memorial service of Miliband's uncle. Mail on Sunday editor Geordie Greig apologised for a "terrible lapse of judgment" and the reporter and an executive with fingerprints on the project were suspended pending a full investigation. But that was then – the world has turned, Miliband has a head full of energy prices, and we learn that following the internal inquiry, the two suspended employees quietly returned to work a fortnight ago. Administrative action has been taken, we understand, which could also mean both are deemed to have suffered through widely publicised suspension. And they are back in the office: maybe a punishment in itself.
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