It seems to me that his latest outbursts of cuntishness have been of a specific type: not just the random cuntery that we have all come to know and despise, but provocative statements and acts deliberately designed to provoke cuntroversy.
I've got a (completely baseless) suspicion that the shithouse rat has got himself a new advisor, who wants to re-position the Joey Barton Brand, so that when he retires he won't simply be remembered as "that cunt" - he'll be remembered by the media as "that cunt who can be relied on for forthright and outspoken views". After all, if that woman-kicking, talent-wasting oxygen thief Collymore can get a career in the media, then why shouldn't that lovable scamp Joey?
Do you think there might be something in this, or am I just wasting time concocting cynical theories when I've got better things to do?