Sadiq Khan, mayor of London

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

To welcome in the New Year, Grace is joined by politician Sadiq Khan. Born in south London, to British Pakistani parents, he is one of eight children and was MP for Tooting before becoming London’s mayor in 2016. Now in his third term, Sadiq and Grace talk about how doughnuts fuel him during elections, the art of screwing up a tuna pasta bake, and where he’d like to take Donald Trump for dinner next time the president-elect is in town.

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.6	I'm Grace Dent and this is comfort eating from The Guardian.
0:13.6	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.5	Because even as a restaurant critic,
0:21.8	I believe the food that matters most
0:24.1	is often that snack you cobble together
0:26.8	when you're curled upon the sofa.
0:29.3	Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid
0:32.6	on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed doors.
0:44.2	Friends, hello and welcome.
0:46.5	Now, as we smash into a new year together, you find me, standing on a chair,
0:53.1	I'm taking down these Christmas decorations.
0:56.1	I'm going to rip down this blue tack. There we go. And I'm putting my plastic mistletoe back in its box.
1:05.0	Fresh start. Now my guest today is the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
1:13.2	He is at this very minute on his way here in his fancy politician's car.
1:18.7	I'm just musing on what 2025 might bring.
1:22.9	Personally, I'm planning to be even more myself. more unashamedly, unapologetically, Grace Dent.
1:33.5	I'll probably refer to myself more than the third person too.
1:37.0	I think I can get away with that.
1:39.1	My blood group right now is brandy butter, and the only thing in my wardrobe that fits me is a large
1:45.8	bath towel. But here are some things I would like to achieve. I'm going to definitely finish war and
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