I know the incident you're speaking of and I don't agree. This was when TB was going hard after everyone who even slightly said anything. This is when TB told Matt Lees to go fuck himself because Matt Lees defended a friend that TB picked on for suffering with alcoholism.
I love TB, but there was a 3 month stretch when he was a fucking grade a cunt. All James said was that it was a little hypocritical for TB to go after journalism ethics so hard when he's done some shady shit in the past. Plus, that wasn't supposed to be a public discussion, someone had just recorded it, and then James felt he needed to justify what he said on Twitter.