You can get a decent mouthful of food in Warsaw or Chad if you look hard enough. It’s just I wouldn’t actually go there looking for the food.
GILES CORENMy dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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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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At home, we have fish and greens, fish and greens – maybe salmon steak with curried lentils. No poncy cooking goes on, we don’t have dinner parties, we don’t entertain.
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Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything about journalism, which is that it’s no big deal, and it’s more important to have a glass of wine.
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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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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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When I tell people I spent almost a year in Paris, I know they imagine something out of a Woody Allen movie, which it wasn’t, of course. I was just working in a clothes shop, but I was aware that it was exciting.
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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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When I was 16 my dad taught me to drive too. Furiously. Unable to understand why I couldn’t already do it – for driving, to him, was innate in the human. It was what separated us from the apes. And from the French, who weren’t much good at it either.
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All I care about is that people who like me think I’m funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.
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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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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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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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World cross-fertilization is fantastic. Immigration across the world has led to all kinds of fantastic new and exciting kinds of food being available. And there’s all kinds of different kinds of restaurants.
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