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High life

Like Murdoch, I'm an old man with an eye for beauty. But Wendi Deng? Seriously?

One good thing about being old is that one no longer holds back

14 June 2014

8:00 AM

14 June 2014

8:00 AM

 Gstaad

A slight bump at 30,000 feet concentrates the mind, as the good Dr Johnson said about an appointment with the gallows. Halfway over the Atlantic and lost in a fantasy, I came back in a hurry as the plane shook and trembled; yet my first thought was to show off, pretend I hadn’t noticed, exhibit a kind of brazen indifference while my co-passengers nervously tightened their seat belts.

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