The Spectator has pulled a controversial cartoon of the prophet Muhammad from its website.
The image was one of a series of cartoons - originally published in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten - that have generated outrage in the Muslim world and a huge row about freedom of speech across Europe.
The magazine's acting editor, Stuart Reid, said he had not been responsible for uploading the picture, which depicts Muhammad with a bomb fizzing out of his turban.
But after a call from Spectator publisher Andrew Neil, he gave instructions for the image to be taken down.
"We don't do the website here at the Spectator," he said. "The website is done separately. But I spoke to Andrew Neil and said I didn't think it was a wise thing, then spoke to people and they are going to take it down."
He said the website did not have an editor but "the guy who has overall responsibility" was Dominic Cummings.
When contacted by MediaGuardian.co.uk, Mr Cummings declined to comment or confirm the nature of his responsibilities. "I have zero comment," he said.
The controversial image appeared as part of the website's Spectator Live! section, which provides Drudge Report-style links to stories on other websites.
The cartoon was accompanied by text saying: "European newspapers reprint Muhammad 'Bomb turban' cartoon, but as European populations die and Muslim populations grow, and as more and more European students are taught Foucault and 'literary critical theory', the balance of power shifts every day; meanwhile Britain's comic political class cannot even control Islamic terrorists when they finally lock a few up in prison..."
Clicking on the link took the reader through to a story on the Times website about the European newspapers that have shown the cartoon.
By 5pm today, the cartoon had been replaced with an image of a mushroom cloud, linking to a Times story about Iran, while the text about the cartoon remained.
Until today, no British news organisation had shown the controversial cartoon or 11 other images that were first printed back in September.
Newspapers in a number of European countries - such as Spain, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Italy - have printed the cartoons, often as a gesture in defence of free speech. In the most controversial episode so far, the managing editor of France Soir was sacked after the paper printed the drawings in yesterday's edition, using the defiant headline, "Yes, we have the right to caricature God."
The cartoons have angered Muslims because Islam forbids the human representation of the prophet, and many believe that some of the images ridiculed the prophet.
