Cursing may cause offence, but we would be a lot worse off without it
Michael Broderick: ‘You can’t turn the switch on overnight and hope there are going to be houses coming out’
I certainly felt my own stress levels subside when the Daily Mail reported on a “foul-mouthed outburst” from a financial journalist after the Truss government’s mini-budget sparked a market meltdown. The journalist turned out to be my FT colleague Gillian Tett, who I don’t think I have ever heard curse. When a TV news anchor asked what she made of ministerial claims that the government’s budget had not caused the market fiasco, she said such talk was “pretty much b****cks”.
The affair made me wonder, yet again, precisely how many people are sincerely offended by words like this in 21st-century Britain, let alone “damn”, “hell” and other religious words that still apparently stir complaint. The remark was never broadcast but Guru-Murthy’s employers took a dim view and he was taken off air for a week.
His woes came just as the BBC reported that a senior adviser to the ever more troubled Truss had also been suspended, this time for a word in the excretory category.
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