Australian prime minister gives four-letter verdict on Gordon Ramsay.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

The Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, today needed just two four-letter words, and the odd shorter word, to convey his view of the infamously foul-mouthed celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, describing him as a "new form of low life".

Rudd's comments follow an escalating four-day war of words that has ensued since Ramsay mocked the Australian television journalist Tracy Grimshaw on Saturday.

By his own blistering standards, Ramsay was arguably moderate at the weekend: he showed an audience of several thousand at the Melbourne Good Food and Wine show a doctored photograph of a woman naked on all fours, with multiple breasts and a …