Giles Coren is renowned for inserting his keyboard into his mouth, but this time the controversial Times columnist admits he may have gone too far. He made a rather lame attempt at a joke on Twitter earlier today, telling his army of followers (20,233 to be precise): "I can't help thinking Derrick Bird should have got http://amzn.to/bc0cpx." The link is to an Amazon page reviewing Coren's book, Anger Management for Beginners, published last week. The offending Tweet seems to have been deleted, but Coren's subsequent apologies – and there many of them – are still on the site. "It was meant to be a comment on the nonsense of looking for 'anger' as an excuse, when it's something else entirely," he replied to one reader, "But wrong of me." It's one thing sending abusive emails to your colleagues, or walking out of an interview with the Independent on Sunday about your anger management book after a minute because you're, er ... angry. But making light of mass murder is quite another. As he tweeted in reply to Jon Ronson today: "Really I ought to avoid Twitter. And all forms of mass communication." You think, Giles?
