Media Diary: Craig stays put

As well as succeeding in postponing the proposed strike, The Daily Telegraph management won another victory last week. Satirist Craig Brown (see above) was recently seen taking lunch with Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre. Brown is thought to be less than enamoured of the new Telegraph regime. Two years ago he said he would leave the old "cheerful, tolerant and traditional" Telegraph if a "neophiliac" (Andrew Neil) became editor. Anyway, hefty pay rises were offered by the Mail, only to be matched by the Telegraph. Leg-pulling notwithstanding, Brown has decided to stay put.

Special guest star

* More Associated schmoozing: Kevin Spacey went for a cosy lunch at the Standard's Kensington offices on Friday. Now Kevin, there's no way you can use that "I was just walking the dog" line this time.

007 out of 10

* Car maker Ford is thought to have paid around £14m to have James Bond drive the new Mondeo in a chase scene in the Bahamas in the latest 007 movie, Casino Royale. So you would have thought it could have afforded a proofreader when it came to promoting its products off the back of the film. Tie-in advertisements featuring Daniel Craig carry the tagline "Licenced and Loaded". Licensed, one would hope. "We were instructed to spell it that way by the Bond people," says Ford. Yeah, right.

Carried away

* Poor old Mark Radcliffe. Still slumming it in the graveyard Radio 2 slot before midnight, he must also bear the indignity of sniggering BBC colleagues following his small misadventure at Runcorn station. Radcliffe, who lives in Cheshire, had been putting his family and their luggage on to a train for London when the doors closed. His subsequent unplanned entrapment all the way to Crewe gave him time to consider the fate of his car ... hastily parked on yellow lines outside the station.

That's life at the 'Mail'

* The rerun of This Life brings back fond memories for Steve Busfield, editor of Media Guardian and formerly a showbiz hack on the Daily Mail. When the original series ended in 1997, Wells and his Mail colleagues decided to impress the high-ups on the paper by commissioning its writer, Amy Jenkins, to come up with three episodes for the paper. "The senior newspaper executives had heard that it was a zeitgeisty show and were very keen on the idea," he says on Organ Grinder. But it turned out that none of them had seen it. When they did (gay sex, drug taking, swearing, women with careers), Ms Jenkins was paid a kill fee and the scripts never saw the light of day.

Jarvis cock-up

*It's a different class of newspaper wars ... The Times ran a hyped-up interview with Jarvis Cocker nine days ago, to the infuriation of The Sunday Times, which assumed it had secured the first big interview to accompany his new album, Jarvis. The Times stole a march on its Wapping rivals when it dispatched music writer Peter Paphides with tape recorder to interview Jarvis, promising that the interview would only be a podcast. When editors heard it, they decided it was good enough for print. How quaintly retro.

FA's call beyond duty

* What a pro. The FA's personable spokesman Dan Johnson was returning work calls on his mobile late on Friday night, despite being in an A&E ward, having just been knocked off his bike. Yes, he was wearing a helmet; yes, he did get the car's number.