War and No Peace
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther take a careful look through this week's papers to find a new column idea; from Roman Abramovich and mental health in farming, to private schools and boring classic novels. Giles tries to balance his brand of humour with being sensitive to the atrocities in Ukraine whilst Esther has written a topical pop quiz.
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| 0:00.0 | Morning, Jiles. |
| 0:04.0 | Morning. |
| 0:05.0 | You're having a few mental health problems this week, aren't you? |
| 0:09.0 | Yes, I'm in a real country. |
| 0:10.0 | You're perfectly legit mental health problems. |
| 0:12.0 | It's not just you being a barking man, as usual. |
| 0:15.0 | Yesterday you said something about the podcast and I said, |
| 0:18.0 | there's a joke, well, I thought I'd not bother doing the podcast tomorrow. |
| 0:21.0 | And then you replied, in earnestness. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, no, I don't see how we can do it because it's like, |
| 0:25.0 | it's a fucking nightmare. |
| 0:26.0 | Because what are we going to say? |
| 0:27.0 | And I'm never going to write again. |
| 0:28.0 | No, no, exactly. |
| 0:29.0 | I think we shouldn't. |
| 0:30.0 | And I was going to call Ben and say, what are we going to do? |
| 0:32.0 | Well, I have come up with a few solutions to this problem. |
| 0:35.0 | The problem with the podcast, not necessarily the problem of your column. |
| 0:39.0 | Not necessarily the problem of the invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:42.0 | No, one of my solutions is actually a solution to that as well, |
| 0:46.0 | which is that I've signed you up for the Ukrainian Defence Force. |
| 0:48.0 | It's got the doorbells wrong. |
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