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Giles Coren Has No Idea

“This is not the end; this is not even the beginning… can I go for a wee?”

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The subject of Russell Brand prompts Giles to ponder the merits of being a conspiracy theorist. Esther has been given the nod that comedians aren’t very good in bed, or is that just another conspiracy theory. 

Prime Minister Sunak is taken to task over his rolling back of the Conservative party green agenda and does Paris actually exist, at least the fetishised American version of it? 



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0:00.0

Waitrose have added more of your favourites to their new lower prices.

0:03.6

Or is it new, new, lower prices, or newer, new, lower prices?

0:07.9

Well, they've added more, so it could be more, newer, new, lower prices.

0:11.6

Or even the newest of new, lower prices on more.

0:14.2

Ernie, who? Waitrose have new, new, lower prices on hundreds of your favourites,

0:19.4

like apples, chicken, and those cheeky ginger nuts. Waitrose.

0:23.0

Food to feel good about.

0:24.9

Selected stores, subjects to availability, prices may vary in a little Waitrose channel islands and concessions.

0:29.9

When you call a Neal, it just sounds wrong.

0:36.9

I think it's a sticker for our producer, because Jiles keeps calling him Ian, even though they've just Neal.

0:43.4

I did walk to open the door at the doorbell rang, and I was walking to the door going,

0:46.9

Neal, Neal, Neal, Neal, Neal, Neal, Neal. But it's never the problem.

0:49.9

Or is it Ian? It's just that, no, it's just that right in the back,

0:53.9

it's not about knowing what someone's name is, it's right in the back.

0:57.9

So yesterday, for example, at school pick up, school drop off, I dropped off Sam,

1:03.9

and as I got out of the car, there was Yotem Otolengi, or was it?

1:09.9

No, it wasn't. Yes, it was. No, it was.

1:12.9

So Yotem Otol, or it was a different, very tall handsome gay, Israeli chef,

1:19.9

who was no, and he did look familiar, but I realised I'd seen him milling around outside hangar,

1:25.9

and I was going to shut that. And when I'm chatting, the point is on the Ian Neal dichotomy.

1:30.9

I did the classic introduction. This is Sam, hey, this is Yotem.

1:34.9

And I just didn't say this is Yotem, in case it was actually fat in my wet bread,

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