Comment - Columnists - Giles Coren en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:17:12 GMT Newspapers Comment - Columnists - Giles Coren 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif There’s no hope. And, frankly, all is not well Giles Coren Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-30T07:16:24Z Hi. Hope all is well with you. I’ve just read the thrilling news that Abi Titmuss is to play Lady Macbeth at the Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft, and it got me to thinking about just what in the world is ... hang on, what happened there? Don’t tell me I began this column by saying that I hope all is well with you. Oh no, I did. The humungous sadness of Britain’s fattest man Giles Coren Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-02T11:56:35Z Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, may be Jamaican. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, the world’s richest men, may both be American. Australia will always have the most impressive sheep-to-man ratio on Earth and nobody will beat the Germans for beer drinking. But at least Britain has Paul Mason, who was unearthed this week as very possibly the fattest person in the world. Brain the size of a planet? Don’t be big-headed Giles Coren Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-26T10:42:10Z In common with almost everyone you will meet, apart from lawyers, I have very little interest in the law. It exists, so far as I can fathom, only to provide a lifetime of homework for Oxbridge overachievers whose sense of self-worth is so bound up in getting their prep done and passing their exams that, were these twin elements of student life to be denied them after their education was over, they would simply shrivel up and die. The barcode is nothing to celebrate Giles Coren Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-19T11:35:55Z I think we are all well aware that Wednesday was the 57th anniversary of the invention of the barcode. It’s bizarre that we are, because it was hardly the most interesting thing about last Wednesday, which was also, as you probably know, the 438th anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, Heinrich Himmler’s 109th birthday and the 97th anniversary (to the very day!) of the first transaction made on the Helsinki stock exchange. But it is the glorious 57th of the barcode that we know about.