Is it time to run away Sir Bernard?
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
After a difficult few weeks Giles and Esther are back. Understandably the conversation begins with the ongoing conflict in the middle east, and its jarring contrast with the rest of life.
Matters develop as the idea of emigrating emerges…well running away would be more accurate. But where to, that is the question; Cuba, New Zealand, Mumbai…?
Finally, the ‘fruity’ language of Dominic Cummings…or is it Cummins? Is his lineage that of Campbell, Iannucci and Tucker? Or is he simply the result of unbearable frustration at pompous blobs…?
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy. |
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| 0:29.0 | Right. Are you okay? Do you need? Yes. Sort of. I don't know. Yeah. There's the obvious things you have to talk about and then do you address them or not and the fact is they get boring. You know and boring just in the sense of there's nothing left. not boring not |
| 0:45.0 | and boring just in the sense of there's nothing left to say not boring not |
| 0:46.0 | intro not boring not important yeah but this is the thing we've talked |
| 0:49.6 | about so much as we started doing the podcast and it was the thing with |
| 0:51.9 | Brexit or was the thing with Brexit or was the thing with |
| 0:53.8 | COVID or COVID and then Ukraine and all those things the story comes along what do you do and you go |
| 0:59.1 | and I'm with yeah by the these days with the speed of communication and opinion forming, two days and everything's |
| 1:07.9 | really been said that can be said. |
| 1:09.9 | And everyone knows what they think, whether it's Brexit or whether it's you know we |
| 1:13.4 | we didn't I was all about the fact that we didn't do the podcast a couple of weeks |
| 1:16.6 | ago because like it was all just a bit much and then we were away for half |
| 1:19.1 | turn so it was sort of picking up the pieces and you come back and the point is |
| 1:22.0 | I wrote a strong piece about Israel Gaza which was like the most |
| 1:24.8 | red thing on the times throughout the conflict about the war at all I discovered from the analytics |
| 1:29.0 | you know so a nice one Charles I did, but that was what I think. |
| 1:33.1 | And then the following week I did it again, |
| 1:35.4 | then thank fuck, it was half term, |
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