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Giles Coren Has No Idea

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Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, Unknown, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther are feeling a little uneasy about discussing the news. Well, one story in particular, the Israel Gaza conflict. Can anything be said, is anyone the right person to say it?

In cheerier news, winter is here, hurrah! Light the fire, hunker down and see no one. Whilst huddled under a blanket Esther has an idea, possibly one ‘borrowed’ from an Adam Sandler film; Esther wants to enact VAR in everyday life…did you really put the toilet seat down? Finally, the merits of single sex or mixed schools - Giles and Esther make their pitch for; “The rest is education.” 



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0:00.0

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0:48.4

Well look you've got an interesting thought that we should start with

0:56.2

Hamas and it's I don't know where I was I'm just back from the March

1:00.9

Which I didn't want you to go on because I thought you were going to be

1:03.8

pummeled to a patte for some reason. I don't know. I was very very fearful about it but it turned out to be nice and

1:09.5

this is the we are of course talking about the anti-Semitism March in

1:14.8

well I wrote about it in the paper already she wrote about yeah let's not

1:18.1

pretend that I'm going to write about the March again but we've noticed looking at

1:21.4

our podcast statistics that when we talk about from the heart and deeply about Gaza and Hamas and the Middle East and Israel from my perspective.

1:33.0

People listen to it more.

1:34.0

So my columns land really hard when I talk about all the Jewish stuff.

1:39.0

Yeah.

1:40.0

But I'm a journalist and I want to land hard.

1:41.0

But we've got lots of great, you've got loads of great fun ideas to talk about in the podcast, but we're thinking let's talk about Hamas because people want to hear about it, therefore we'll do well. Are we turning this tragedy into click bait is that okay

1:54.8

well I that's a good question and obviously turning things into click bait is a thing that I

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