Some might think expressing sympathy is a nice thing to do. Not so the Daily Mail's ever-sensitive Jan Moir, who writes that, when done on Twitter, it's "an unsavoury social shift, a bleak emotional signpost to what lies ahead." Oh.

Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir has issued an apology for her furor-causing exercise-in-sensitivity, saying "I would like to say sorry if I have caused distress by the insensitive timing of the column, published so close to the funeral." [DailyExpress]