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High life

For the first time in my life I felt like a rock star

After my vodka-fuelled speech at the Polish Club, I was mobbed by Spectator readers

11 April 2015

9:00 AM

11 April 2015

9:00 AM

Ah, spring! The spring of our frostbitten age. At the Polish Club in London, a wonderful place studded with portraits of Polish patriots who have fought and sacrificed for the West’s freedom. In this beautiful and heroic setting, your High life correspondent gave a speech about what it’s like writing for The Spectator, with some odds and ends about my life in general of 50 years ago.

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