Lordy!

Boris Johnson, has, says the decorous newspaper, been involved in a foul-mouth rant against Ken Livingstone. By which they mean he used the F-word in denouncing Livingstone when they had an encounter in a lift at LBC.

Yet run a word-search on the F-word in the Guardian and you get no fewer than 9517 results. The C-word gets a good haul too: 1097 results.

From which it’s safe to conclude that the Guardian is a foul-mouthed newspaper, apart from when it is being clever, witty, edgy and transgressive in using dirty words.