Even though James Blunt is one of the most disliked singers on the planet (is it all down to Your Beautiful? Well, it's a justifiable reason) we think he deserves some serious kudos for his counter-trolling on twitter.

While he has not, we'll say, been universally praised for his songwriting skills he has been demonstrating his witty way with words as he responds to mean tweets about him and his music. Actually, we would go as far to say that his deadly one-liners against haters could be included in the best things on twitter at the mo. Here are some of his bons mots from December: