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Giles Coren Has No Idea

Banging Out

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther pick apart the papers for this week's column idea; from a scary fiscal event and saving Britain's wild birds, to cheating at chess with a sex toy and saying farewell to the boss. Giles pays tribute to his outgoing editor and Esther is picks bits of ceiling out of her tea.


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0:00.0

And lots of people said that they thought last week's was incredibly fine.

0:03.2

I thought it was really good as well. Esther had a problem with it.

0:05.9

I think immediately realizing, as I was saying it, that I had absolutely zero grasp on any aspect of it,

0:14.4

you cannot mix and I thought that cutting stamp duty would invigorate the housing market,

0:18.8

make houses much cheaper. Did you say that in the fog?

0:21.3

Yeah, I went on and on and on about it and then I was listening back to it.

0:24.0

Was that the end of it? Oh yeah, that was in it.

0:26.2

You were very, but you very, very nicely did not do a big man's plane going.

0:33.6

I just thought you were going to remove it. I thought it was a faggot of my wife talking about it.

0:40.0

I was so stressed about the hack and everything on your email and about the general kind of,

0:46.0

I was quite jangly last week and I just did that thing where you just say whatever comes up

0:51.5

on your mind and it was and it was that. That's what you're supposed to do in a podcast. We start

0:56.2

Okay, let's go.

1:20.9

Right, we've got a little bit of housekeeping at the top of this podcast.

1:24.5

We have in a rare fit of organization.

1:27.9

As Ben said, welcome for series eight. We've got a running order for the first

1:32.4

and we're very excited because as sort of happened last week, but we were in a bad state.

1:37.7

We were in a bad place because I'd been hacked and all that, which will come to.

1:42.0

We were all excited because there was loads of stuff in the papers and we didn't really get to it.

1:45.1

This week is so much stuff in the papers that I have to really crack on.

1:49.4

Yeah, we do. So housekeeping. Number one.

1:52.0

Number one, the builders. Oh, yes. Okay.

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