Snowflakes
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Giles and Esther sift through the national papers to find stories for his column this week; the pressures facing modern MPs, suggestions of historical snowflakery, public school plumbers and the sticky issue of the nation's favourite confectionery. Esther’s persistent cough persists and Giles is apologetic.
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| 0:53.0 | Welcome to Giles Corrin has no idea. |
| 0:59.0 | It's called this not because I literally know nothing, but because it's all |
| 1:04.5 | about the moment in the week when I have to sit down and write my column but have absolutely no |
| 1:08.5 | idea what to write it about, which is where my wife Esther comes in, who, having read all the papers whilst I take the kids to school, |
| 1:15.0 | always has half a dozen ideas picked out for me when I get back to be discussed at the kitchen table over a nice cup of coffee. I've got a story for you then. |
| 1:27.0 | Who would want to be an MP now? |
| 1:30.0 | I think there's a, there's a, there's a, there've been a few stories over the last few weeks about that have raised the issue that it's really really bad to be an MP which is quite worrying because it means that no one wants to be an MP no one wants to go politics. So there's the thing where you have these |
| 1:44.8 | aggressive journalists on the today program and other aggressive journalists who want to make a name |
| 1:48.8 | for themselves by being, by humiliating and embarrassing MPs on television, |
| 1:53.2 | which is a historical thing, but has been brought to light |
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