Its Christmas shut up, f**k off!
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Its Christmas and it’s all hands to the ideas pump. Giles has columns to write, lots of them, and he’d like them done before Christmas eve. Cue a list of perennial Christmas crackers; cost of Christmas, Whamageddon!, other things to avoid before Christmas, who likes Christmas pudding and dead or alive at Christmas…
A quick look at robot reverends and Esther’s tips on prepping for the end of the world, and we’re half an hour closer to Christmas.
PS Benny Hill didn’t die on Christmas day.
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| 1:17.7 | Yeah I walked into that one that's why I always let you start because whatever I say |
| 1:21.6 | Yes, yeah say is some stupid |
| 1:23.1 | fucking thing to say what is the one thing on every journalist's mind at the |
| 1:28.4 | moment as we sit here today on Wednesday the 6th of January. Oh my God. Well I mean it ought to be focusing |
| 1:37.3 | on the day the fact that Boris Johnson is to give evidence at the COVID |
| 1:39.7 | inquiry today and for the next two days. Yeah. Which luckily we can't podcast about because he hasn't done it yet. |
| 1:46.2 | I'm quite depressed that after everything he's still such a draw. |
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