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Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, Unknown, News

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Where now for Gregg Wallace and the BBC? Esther is focused on the BBC’s HR department – what were they doing? Giles ponders the consequences of a decision made twenty years ago. And if this is the new bar for public opprobrium - who might be next?

Board games at Christmas, marvellous. All the family sat round the fire, rolling the dice…until one falls asleep, one cheats, and one gets so competitive they flip the board and it all ends in tears. Excellent, let’s do it again next year.

The governments new junk food advertising ban has caused quite a stir but what is it exactly? Have they really banned porridge, have they actually banned anything? Time for some clarity, insight and war time meal planning.

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0:00.0	We all want to enjoy food that tastes great and is sauce responsibly,
0:04.0	but it's not always easy to know where your favourite foods come from.
0:08.0	McDonald's works with more than 23,000 British and Irish farmers to source quality ingredients.
0:14.0	Sophie Bambridge grows quality potatoes for McDonald's iconic fries in Norfolk.
0:18.0	I think McDonald's are one of the biggest supporters of British farming.
0:22.7	They have a real commitment to British potatoes.
0:25.0	The Sustainable Fries Fund is a collaborative investment by McCain and MacDonald's
0:30.8	to help us understand and try different growing techniques for potatoes
0:35.8	so that we can understand what we can do to help reduce
0:39.0	our impact on the environment but still produce a good quality potato. It helps enable us to
0:44.6	try things without having the risk and cost of potentially it going wrong. The support from McCain
0:50.7	and McDonald's is really useful to us. Change a little, change a lot.
0:55.4	Find out more about McDonald's plan for change on the McDonald's website.
1:00.0	Look at you with your fancy pants job.
1:03.6	Sitting at your laptop all day on your video meetings,
1:07.2	saying things like, let's circle back on this,
1:10.1	or can you drill down on that?
1:12.4	Or, or deep dive.
1:15.4	You know what you are, don't you?
1:17.2	You're entitled, that's what?
1:20.1	That's right.
1:21.2	Most people who use a screen at work are entitled to claim free eye care.
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