Giles Coren

The Times.

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Okay, fine, sorry. I got that one wrong. Rude, disrespectful, silly. I apologise.

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@peterwells79 @benjyminty Boring little man. Boring boring boring boring boring.

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I walked out of Sainsbury’s without paying because the self-serve tills were all down and the queue was too long. Then I went back and paid for my stuff later. Hardly shoplifting is it? If they cared when (or whether) we paid, they’d run their shops better
https://t.co/nazi9ZCQeE

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@MCP_65 @henrywinter @LastBlairite Among the many answers I’m compelled to give to “why QPR?” seeing as I don’t live in that part of West London, one of my most frequent responses is “because I’m only 5 foot nine so it’s fine”.

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@benjyminty @peterwells79 Don’t be a dunce. Read the words.

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@Gerard1976uk @eastlake_e Boring nobody. With a rabbit face.

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Zonda at the Halfway review: ‘The pizzas are just phenomenal’

https://t.co/ybfHmrBnGV

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Zonda at the Halfway review: ‘The pizzas are just phenomenal’

https://t.co/ybfHmrBnGV

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@annemcelvoy Exactly this. Plus having to scroll back to the 1960s to do your DOB - can take weeks to check in…

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@rachelauntie @reportingLibya @wmarybeard But it’s still a very nice shop and I hope you enjoy your work.

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Well, the Booker panel got it wrong again. They did a pretty good job and they’ve got 4 of my 6 choices on their shortlist but they missed the winner! I will be excoriating them at 8:25 am on Times Radio. (Though in truth they did a pretty good job and I love @wmarybeard).

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@rachelauntie @reportingLibya @wmarybeard Hard to read tone in a tweet of a few words on a phone I find. I think you found what you wanted to find in the tone. I expressed neither pride nor shame. I just offered an autobiographical fact about which I feel neither.

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@rachelauntie @reportingLibya @wmarybeard I didn’t say I was proud of it.

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@btharris93 Boring boring boring man.

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@peterwells79 @benjyminty “Entitled” is such a boring meaningless word used by idiots without a thought in their head. I didn’t write in The Times that it was acceptable. I wrote explicitly that it was wrong. My point is that the supermarkets don’t care because it’s the most profitable system for them.

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@Baddiel @wmarybeard My worry is that they left it off the list just to spite me. I think they did that last year with Benjamin Wood’s Seascraper. More fool them.

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@GarethReeves4 @Baddiel @wmarybeard No, I thought black bag was a brilliant comic novel. Not as good, as I wrote, as the three masterpieces on the list but a really promising to start from the guy.

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@Beathhigh Yes, mine too. It’s quite a relief. I wonder if in a kind of Benjamin Button way (or better still, Arthur C Clarke’s 9 Billion Names of God) my account will tick down from 1 to 0 on the day I die.

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@reportingLibya @wmarybeard I got done for lifting books at Blackwells in Oxford when I was a student. Actually did a few hours in the cells. But they couldn’t charge me because the store detective laid her hand on me when I still had one foot in the shop…

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@DSinck @wmarybeard @TimesRadio Yes, I thought I was being shut down for my outrageous literary opinions, but it was just a problem with the video link.

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@Beathhigh Here’s a weird thing: you and I both have 193.6k followers. Does that make us some sort of weird digital twins???

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@Beathhigh Indeed, the only explanation I can think of for Emma Cline’s novel being left off the list is that Mary WANTS me to eat her!

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@Beathhigh She has been in touch this morning asking how I plan to cook her and apologising that she may be a bit tough. I was thinking perhaps a series of doner kebabs…