It's Just Not Cricket
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther return to scour this week's papers for a column idea; from a patriotic Labour Party and drinking at home, to the rules of cricket and life after lockdown. Esther is blamed for yet another hangover on a Giles who is excited about the return of cricket to terrestrial tv and talkSPORT 2.
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| 0:00.0 | Sorry. |
| 0:01.0 | There's a burp. |
| 0:02.0 | Is that the first part? |
| 0:03.0 | It's my navigate burp, but... |
| 0:04.0 | Well, that's a navigate burp. |
| 0:05.0 | Followed by some heartburn episodes and then the couple started about... |
| 0:06.0 | And the couple started about? |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:08.0 | And then I might start your morning. |
| 0:09.0 | You were angry earlier on this week or maybe last week about the notions of risk. |
| 0:33.0 | And about scientists and their stupid risk calculations. |
| 0:37.0 | Was I? |
| 0:38.0 | Yes, you were. |
| 0:39.0 | And then I saw today in the day email page 12. |
| 0:41.0 | So there's in the open schools, you know, pressure groups. |
| 0:46.0 | There's a big deal because schools in Scotland are going to reopen on February 22nd. |
| 0:50.0 | Good two weeks before England have even mooted to the school opening, which is March 8th. |
| 0:57.0 | Page 12 in the mail who are both desperate for schools to reopen and also desperate for everyone to stay home and not go anywhere. |
| 1:05.0 | Well, their readers are literally all in the higher risk category, although most of them have now been vaccinated. |
| 1:10.0 | So they might start coming back. |
| 1:11.0 | The Daily Mail has to try to very fine line between being the newspaper of probably like mad shielders. |
| 1:17.0 | And also... |
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