AIBU to think that Giles Coren's column about Ukraine is disgusting?

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I know that it is supposed to be satire, but I can't find any humour in Giles Coren's article about Ukraine today. It makes me want to cancel my Times subscription. A few days ago a maternity hospital was bombed and terrified families are being shelled while they try to escape! The whole world could be dragged into a nuclear conflict.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/giles-coren-in-a-cage-fight-ill-take-mad-vlad-over-truss-cp9vgrl6h

(It is behind a paywall, but the general gist is that he's bored of people talking about the war, no one cares about Ukraine because it's far away, and maybe the Russians aren't so bad, and what if the Ukranians really are Nazis. I've also attached some screengrabs). Maybe I'm not clever enough to appreciate Giles' sophisticated brand of satire. I didn't go to public school or Oxford University like he did, but even The Times' readers who tend to applaud his sneering restaurant reviews in the comments seem to be appalled.

He's an attention-seeking arse who has had a career based on his father's name.

Giles has run out of ideas and clicks so tries to be a provocateur and say outrageous things for attention.

He’s being deliberately provocative, as he often is, but I agree, not needed.

His next column will be complaining about being " cancelled".

He's always horrible.
It's a given.

He’s the male equivalent of Samantha Brick. Equally irrelevant and unfunny,

He’s consistently tone deaf. I don’t want to give him the clicks but I can imagine. There an incomprehensibly appalling invasion and daily massacre of civilians going on. Absolutely no way is this the right time for any kind of ‘satire’ or whatever is intended here.

He only has a career because of his father and his father was a much better man than him and would be ashamed to see what he writes now.

Yes but I’ve always thought of him as a talentless unpleasant bellend who only got his job because of his daddy

I’ve just read it (free account) and it’s both depressing and ridiculous. Not sure what he was aiming for, but he’s missed the mark by miles. Awful article. Can’t believe he gets paid for this drivel.

That’s a very offensive article.

Signs of a failing career I think. Shameful.

He's an odious prick who somehow still gets paid for churning out this shit.

He is a particularly unpleasant individual. His comments about Dawn Foster were abhorrent.

If I were inclined to be generous I’d say it was an attempt to satirise some of the more tone deaf bleeding heart commentators on the war but it fails completely. It shouldn’t have been printed. It’s just shit writing.

He’s an utter dickhead and I really don’t know why The Times employ him.

He’s an attention seeking prick in the realm of Katie Hopkins. Christ knows who is paying him for this drivel.

Does anyone still read his drivel? That man is the epitome of all that is wrong with the old school tie....

It's Giles Coren, he's a professional twat. You posting about this is exactly what he wants.

That’s properly unpleasant.

@georama

It's Giles Coren, he's a professional twat. You posting about this is exactly what he wants.

I know he's meant to be a controversial polemicist. But maybe he should stick to writing restaurant reviews rather than about genocide. He's also on BBC prime time shows like Amazing Hotels, which are funded by license payers.

@QuebecBagnet

He’s the male equivalent of Samantha Brick. Equally irrelevant and unfunny,

Why are you dragging Samantha Brick into this?

He's a horrendous cunt. HTH.

Yep ^

Must be hard when the sister got the brains and the looks.

Take the shame instead mate.