This week, Times columnist and professional snark Giles Coren found himself yearning for "the golden age when we wrote, they read, and that was it" after a vituperative run-in with a critic on Twitter.
The 42-year-old scion of the Coren clan - his father was the writer Alan, his sister is poker-playing hack Victoria - has a notoriously volatile temper, most memorably castigating the subeditors at the Times magazine for changing the copy in a ...
F*ck that sh*t"; Fearne Cotton: "sh*t is fake") followed reliable Twitterranters Joey Barton (Gary Lineker is an "odious little toad") and Giles Coren, who called a critic of his Times column a "barren old hag". If aggression is any act intended to do ...
Barton (for some reason watching TV instead of celebrating with his QPR teammates) took exception to Alan Shearer's criticism of his violent, pretentious, idiotic tendencies.
