
Giles Coren
Critic and Columnist at The Times
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thetimes.com | Giles Coren
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thetimes.com | Rachel Campbell-Johnston |Giles Coren |Waldemar Januszczak |James Marriott
We all know the drill. If you’re feeling stressed or overwhelmed — go for a walk! Stop looking at screens! Eat more vegetables for a healthy microbiome that some scientists link to your mental health! This week researchers from the University of Cambridge have added another suggestion to this list of solutions: gaze at something beautiful. A new study suggests that taking time out to contemplate aesthetically pleasing art can boost abstract thinking and free us from everyday anxieties.
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thetimes.com | Giles Coren
The first time I ate Victor Garvey’s cooking, I didn’t even know I was doing it. I was sitting outside a new tapas joint in St Katharine Docks, in the gastronomic desert of Tower Hamlets, on a sunny afternoon in the spring of 2014, climbing into a bottle of albarino with a colleague, because it was just down the road from The Times. Bravas Tapas was nestled in the new development between a Côte, a Strada and a Ping Pong (remember Ping Pong?) and we didn’t hold out much hope for the food.
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thetimes.com | Giles Coren
Another bank holiday, another children’s film. I had heard A Minecraft Movie was dismal, but Sam really wanted to see it “for the memes”, whatever that meant, and I reckoned it couldn’t be any worse than Snow White, Wish, Paddington in Peru, DC League of Super-Pets or Moana 2 (the film that led Kitty to say, “right, that’s it, no more kids’ movies, adult films only from now on, my childhood is officially OVER”). And it was indeed better than those.
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thetimes.com | Giles Coren
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RT @gilescoren: Victor Garvey review: ‘Wonderful guy, my favourite kind of chef’ https://t.co/wXGT0i8OdV

RT @gilescoren: Update on the missing necklace and then Esther tries to explain the menopause to me… https://t.co/Q3wlUkZI4e

RT @gilescoren: I’m with Michelle Obama, I fear the empty nest will break me. https://t.co/iIyjpl38VB