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High life

Why 1919 wasn’t the year it’s cracked up to be

12 January 2019

9:00 AM

12 January 2019

9:00 AM

Gstaad

The funny thing is that I was at school with a man called Ted Widmer, and I recently read that one Ted Widmer is a ‘distinguished lecturer’ at a New York university and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. The Ted I knew was anything but ethical and dressed rather strangely.

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