Piers Morgan – making a success of being offensive

Piers Morgan, famously outspoken and abrasively confident, has made a car-crash career out of being a professional provocateur.  Rupert Murdoch, his former boss at the News of the World, where he was editor described him as having “balls bigger than his brains”. And it’s not that he’s always wrong, having blown his US TV presenting career by refusing to back down over his opposition to the lax gun laws which slumped his ratings. But he is addicted to getting into fig