A protester attacked News Corps head Rupert Murdoch with a pie during his testimony before Parliament.

That gave the food editor from a competing newspaper a chance to lambaste both the attacker and his target.

Here’s a taste from The Telegraph

Thank you, Jonnie Marbles. When you tried to splat Rupert Murdoch while he was being questioned by MPs, with one fell (pie-laden) swoop, you provided us food writers with a way in from the wilderness. At last, a culinary angle on the phone hacking saga.

Not that I’m glad that Mr Murdoch got pied. Attempting to attack an apparently fragile man in his eighties is indefensible. Even if Old Table Thumper does have a wife whose left hook makes Lucy Liu’s character in Charlie’s Angels look like a nursery nurse.

But Mr Marbles, I can’t say I’m not also a little disappointed. Shaving foam on a paper plate? Where was your finesse? Where was your style?

Dick and Dom, of Da Bungalow fame, would have no truck with it. The acknowledged pie-meisters of our times, whose creations adorned the faces of teen pop stars like Rachel Stevens, were a) entirely edible and b) proper pies. My favourite victims even licked their lips. That’s what I call entering into the spirit of the stunt.