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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.

Giles Coren

A 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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The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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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 would go swaggering into restaurants in some ridiculous tramp disguise, challenging them to mistreat me, order the things I was least likely to enjoy, then hurl my plate aside in a fury and demand to see the manager.
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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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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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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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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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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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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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I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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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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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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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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