Judith Orr, the editor of the Socialist Worker, has been keeping a low-profile since her newspaper was widely condemned for poking fun at an Eton schoolboy who was mauled to death by a polar bear.

Last Thursday the weekly newspaper reported the inquest of Horatio Chapple in a diary piece under the headline: “Eton by a bear? The inquest begins”. The page-two article finished with the line: “Now we have another reason to save the polar bears.”