That’s a really bad excuse, and probably not true. If he didn’t want to be distracted, he could have simply not looked at twitter. Musk’s offer was obviously sincere, and if Unsworth found it unhelpful, the adult response is to politely decline.

If you instead go to the media and pick a fight by using inflammatory claims and insults, you should not be surprised if someone hits back harder. To then go crying to the courts about defamation over a fight you started is just being an opportunistic weasel.