It’s just amazing that London’s chattering classes regard the Guardian as Britain’s most serious, reliable newspaper.

Below is today’s main cartoon in the Guardian by the paper’s award-winning cartoonist.

No wonder that Melanie Phillips, a former Guardian journalist, called the paper a “sewer” earlier this week.

Guardian readers are also today mourning the fact that their hero, “Red” Ken Livingstone, has been voted out of office as London’s mayor by a decisive margin by the charismatic conservative Boris Johnson.