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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.

Giles Coren

It doesn’t matter how much of a hurry you think you are in. Be one of the people for whom ten minutes does not make a difference.
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Difference Hurry Matter Minute Much One Ten Think
But still I can never shake the feeling that buses are somehow beneath me. Which is why I have a rule regarding their use: I never, ever run for one. And nor should you.
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Beneath Bus Feel Regard Rule Run Shake Somehow Still
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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Arrow Brought Build Cross Family Food Inside People Place Rural Safety Scary Wall
I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I’m at home more – and less of a disciplinarian.
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Alone Become Dad Father Home More
People like me make modern life intolerable.
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Intolerable Life Mark Modern People
My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn’t want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.
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Dad Journalist Novelist One Successful Want
Mineral water is a preposterous vanity, either bottled in glass which is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic that ends up in one of the plastic patches the size of Texas occupying our oceans.
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Bottle Freight Glass heavy Mineral Occupy Ocean Patch Plastic Preposterous Stupidity Water
People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you’re famous, but me? Me, I’m in the Premier Inn in Gillingham.
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Bbc Country Million Paid People Premier Think
My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.
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All Appear Dad Darkness Everything Funny Inner Made Make Page Problem Rage Really Though Wrote
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’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
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 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
How clever am I? I’m really quite clever. I mean, look, I’ve got a first-class degree from Oxford.
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Class Clever Country Degree First Look Mean
I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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Greta Labor Thing Think Unionization
He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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Column Evening Punch Staffer Standard Time Wrote

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