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Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther scan the papers for this week's column idea; from parking tickets and this year's Today Show guest editors, to cold water swimming and finding a new job for Matt Hancock. Giles ponders what car Bond would drive and Esther reveals her top tips to avoid a fine.
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| 0:00.0 | You've got too much work on him, are you? |
| 0:02.0 | I have no, I haven't got too much work on. I've got enough work on, but the thing is that when you've got work on and then things go a bit wrong and there's a postal strike which makes a mess of a few things. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah, it can be a tiny, tiny bit stressful, but it's fine. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm here and I've done my work for the podcast and I'm ready to go. |
| 0:18.0 | Top of my list just says Pete Davidson-why. |
| 0:30.0 | There are all sorts of kind of eye-hate columns that you can write this week, but you've just done an eye-hate column and it was, it's all, I mean like you didn't mind- |
| 0:54.0 | No, I hate. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.0 | What were you talking about the vet? No, I'm sorry. I'm talking about the architects. |
| 1:01.0 | We're talking about the vet conduct, so we thought that there's a column, what have you got, is that a vet column? |
| 1:04.0 | No, I've got the lido called Innoean coddle swimming pool. |
| 1:07.0 | We did see that story about vets being- |
| 1:10.0 | Overcharging everybody. |
| 1:11.0 | Overcharging being super expensive and all these people and they love their cats and dogs so much they end up being overcharged by these awful vets. |
| 1:17.0 | And the fact that most vets now are owned by these huge conglomerates and they, obviously, we've been did, will be paid two grand for a scan of our perfectly healthy cat. |
| 1:25.0 | And so I could do vets, what a fucking waste of time, charlatans, but as you say, we're coming off the architects one. |
| 1:30.0 | We're coming off the architects one. |
| 1:31.0 | We're coming off the architects one. |
| 1:32.0 | Dear, wasn't it? |
| 1:33.0 | When it came up in the podcast, it was our show. |
| 1:35.0 | What? |
| 1:36.0 | It was a great idea, architect. |
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