Watch out the Etonians are coming…

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, Unknown, News

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

VAT on school fees offers Giles and Esther the chance to consider the effects of a deluge of public-school children into the state system. Should it come to pass there will be a familiar cast of winners and losers. A pressing question; how should one dress when out in Mayfair? As shabbily as possible it seems, with good reason, oh and don’t wear a watch.

After the break the Kings cancer diagnoses stirs some emotional memories, but nothing to be exploited. In lighter news it turns out that Orcas are not lost at sea and the French are having less sex, whilst the English are making eyes at their pets...

**For those, like me, unsure of the meaning of a ‘mufti day’ it is a non-uniform day at school

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1:00.1	Morning, Giles. Morning, Giles.
1:03.0	Morning, Esther.
1:05.0	It's going to be a very short podcast today because...
1:07.0	Again.
1:08.0	I have found you a story and you don't need to look at any other stories and I found your story.
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