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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.

Giles Coren

As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles.
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Anthropogenic Aware Ban Believer Environment Left Motor Urban Vehicle Wing
Of course you can get a decent mouthful of food in New York. You can get a decent mouthful of food in Nairobi.
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Country Course Denied Food Mouthful Nairobi
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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Beginning City Huddle Own Protection
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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Fetch Gopher Job Need Subeditor Supernatural Technology
I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.
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Critic Deliberate Expect General Hurtful Mean Restaurant Stupid
People like me make modern life intolerable.
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Intolerable Life Mark Modern People
The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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Possible Serious Thing Turn Way Write
I let the other reviewers eat the bad meals, so that I didn’t have to, and my wife and I went out only for the good stuff. And I wrote mostly positive reviews. Not only. But mostly. And, ooooh, it felt an awful lot better.
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Awful Better Feel Felt Good Mostly Review Stuff Wife Wrote
I used to be a very angry person, I used to throw things and break them. Then I had five years of constant psycho-analysis, and I don’t get angry any more.
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Analysis Angry Break Constant Five Person Physio Thing Use Year
Personally I ride a bicycle, travel by train and bus and campaign tirelessly for a car taxation system that will hammer ignorant, selfish, petty, fat, spoilt, stupid car abusers into giving up their addiction and walking.
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Abuse Campaign Car Hammer Ignorant Pretty Ride Selfish System Talk Taxation Tirelessly Travel Walk
I have Gordon Ramsay to thank for my TV career because Channel 4 spent a long time trying to find him a sidekick for ‘The F Word’, then he suggested me, knowing I’d stand up to him.
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Career Channel Know People Sidekick Spent Stand Suggest
Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
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Been Countryside Do Nothing Small
I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people.
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Age Drill Early Education General Knowledge Most People Quite
I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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Crazy Food Foodie Mad Opinion Strong
I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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Communist Important Journalist Know More Most Newspaper
Being a success in the world, having total control of one’s life, is about being able to take or leave things.
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Being Control Have Leave Life One Success Take Thing Word

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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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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