Election numberwang
Giles Coren Has No Idea
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šļø 7 June 2024
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Summary
Stephen Fry has upset the ruddy faced members of the MCC; it has left Giles awkwardly fiddling with his box as he balances his desire to join the MCC with his admiration for Mr Fry.
No such trouble with Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak who come in for equal disdain. Was it a debate or a barrister and a banker meeting at the school gates? Or a special episode of Numberwangā¦?
The debate slid to one side Esther and Giles consider a throbbing question; What are the most annoying ācorporate speakā phrases? Low hanging fruit, blue sky thinkingā¦? Whichever it is, Giles and Esther are about to smut them up for you.
Esther thinks Giles has a big one, Giles thinks it is actually quite small, certainly not as big as Fergieās. Thank goodness the late Queen Elizabeth insisted Fergie parade hers in publicā¦
After all the saucy talk Esther needs a stiff drinkā¦but not on a plane.
Finally, its back to the election as Rishi Sunak enlists Tom Cruise into his campaign teamā¦
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
| 0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
| 0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.4 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:29.0 | The things kids do, eh? |
| 0:31.8 | Sitting too close to the TV, dodging homework, |
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| 1:00.0 | Hello and |
| 1:05.0 | me, Esther Walker and has no idea. |
| 1:07.0 | with me, Giles Corrin. |
| 1:08.0 | And me Esther Walker. |
| 1:10.0 | Before we start, I need to say happy birthday. |
| 1:12.0 | Happy birthday today to Ben Stokes. |
| 1:16.0 | Do you know how old he is? |
| 1:17.8 | Well he was about he was 29 when he took over so he must be about 78. No he's 33. He's 33. I just saw just now |
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