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Giles Coren Has No Idea

England in the final but does anyone really care?

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, Unknown, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

England’s female football team – the Lionesses - have reached the final of Euro 2025. Giles is intrigued to know who is following their progress.

A government initiative to limit public services to UK billionaires prompts an idea…what other mundane day to day activities should billionaires be prohibited from doing? Riding the top deck of a bus? If there is an art to holiday packing, Esther has mastered it – one pillow, one can of WD40 and a knife. Job done! What would a resourceful Girl Guide do with such a collection of items…fashion a 'think positive' badge perhaps?

Lastly, dear old King Charles has launched a range beard grooming products. No comedy in that…none whatsoever. Anyone for a jar of royal goolie washer?


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0:00.0

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0:13.0

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0:24.8

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0:32.6

Can you do this, darling?

0:34.1

Yeah, I'm just quite annoyed about what happened.

0:36.1

I was going to dive straight in with the women's European football championships, which I know is a thing you follow deeply and we'll talk about ravish. It's really good. Before we go and get all our flags, we put them on our car aerials and on the roof because of the lionesses. We're both a bit fucked off and we're fucked off whether something

0:54.5

that's fucked us off before.

0:55.5

Which is that, so both our children are now on summer school holidays and they both have

1:01.0

things that they're doing during the day and one of our children was being picked up today

1:06.0

by, you know, another family who were going to the same thing and that family are always late.

1:11.5

I've got a massive problem with late people and they weren't just late. They were an

1:16.4

hour later. They said just leaving, ETA, 10. Doorbell rings at 10. We jump up, open the door. It's

1:25.0

Neil who's cycled here from like very far away and is never

1:29.2

late. Five minutes later, doorbell rings, it's this family. I don't know what about, nobody was

1:35.7

an hour late in the morning when we need to get up kids out from under us to get them to...

1:39.8

I think it makes me angry because I work so hard, never to be late ever. For you, it's a bit triggering. Because your mum was always, always, always, always late for me. All my parenting, however shit it is, the two lines in the sand, I don't hit them because that's what my dad did to me. And I'm not late for them because that's what my mum did to me. And I feel, I have this picture of my childhood

2:01.2

as just standing on a street corner hoping that someone's going to arrive and pick me up and when they do, they whack me. And it takes quite a lot of coming back from. Yeah. But anyway, so we're just processing that this morning. Neil probably cut it all out. Anyway. But Sam, we started off like slightly trembly because he doesn't like to arrive late

1:57.7

because he's never been late.

1:59.0

And in the end, he was laughing.

2:01.3

It's funny.

2:01.9

Because he didn't believe it.

2:02.7

I try to... We started off like slightly trembling because he doesn't like to arrive late because he's never been late.

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