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Giles Coren Has No Idea

A crash diet for Keir

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, Unknown, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Peter Mandelson thinks Keir Starmer "needs to shed a few pounds". And Giles, always the friendly neighbour, thinks he can help his local MP look his dashing best on camera. What should he wear, where should he stand, and who should he stand next to? You're welcome Sir Keir - a future invite to Chequers is surely inevitable...


Plus, it's International Women's Day. So what better way to celebrate than writing about what International Men's Day would look like? And while in the safe confines of podcast land, Giles asks Esther about whether she's scared of the menopause.



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0:00.0

Have I got you, Giles? What? Have I got you? Is your phone more interesting?

0:04.0

Well, there's two different questions, but yeah.

0:08.0

Theme music, podcast. God.

0:20.0

You didn't hear that. You didn't hear that.

0:21.0

I put it fucking phone away.

0:23.0

I put it on to airplane.

0:25.0

Did you hear?

0:26.0

You didn't hear this morning the German ambassador on the today program.

0:29.0

No, because I was listening to Time Trade yet.

0:31.0

Okay, it was amazing, okay. This German, this German guy, I mean, obviously he's German, he's German, he sounds really German, but it was very funny. I mean, the Germans,

0:40.0

what kind of German? Was he? He sounded borderline Austrian, so I don't know what that means, like Al-ZAS.

0:46.8

He sounded a bit like Arnold French.

0:48.5

Is it?

0:49.5

He sounded a bit like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

0:51.8

Anyway, so the story is, the story is, the story is, the story is, the story is. I'll be back, I'll be saying that quite a lot now. Yeah, story. The story is. The story is fought. The Russians have been spying on the Germans. The conversation between Lufthwaver German people.

1:14.0

Yeah, they still call it the Lufthwaver.

1:16.0

Did they?

1:17.0

Anyway, so they recorded this conversation between Lufthwafer officers,

1:20.0

officers and then

1:23.7

so this was all a bit scary because my God the Russians are just listening to the Germans

1:28.6

like in technicolor and then Ben Wallace who is now on the backbenchers, he's no longer the Defence Secretary,

1:35.6

said something along the lines of, well, this is not surprising because there are loads of Russian

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