I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
GILES CORENA man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant is a disastrous thing in a city of 10 million people just trying to muddle through.
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I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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The world’s most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn’t let us win at Monopoly… he wouldn’t cut any slack for his children.
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We’ve got rid of subeditors because we don’t need them. Because they were never necessary. They were just fetchers and gophers. They had a job, which has been superannuated by technology.
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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is unsuitable for an urban lifestyle.
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I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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People like me make modern life intolerable.
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We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at scary, cross-eyed rural people, and brought our food and family inside because they were the safest places to be.
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I used to be so angry. I think back to my early days as a critic in the late 1990s, and I blush.
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My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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I’m just a bit frustrated that in London we make such an effort to ape the New York restaurant scene. I have good friends who ape the New York restaurant scene and do it brilliantly. None of them would claim that the primary reason for going to their restaurant was the food.
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The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.
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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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