Taki

Taki Theodoracopulos has written The Spectator's High Life column since 1977.

High life

20 May 2017 9:00 am

At a chic dinner party last week, a Trump insider gossiped about an American president having had an affair with…

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13 May 2017 9:00 am

Much like the poor, the charity ball has always been with us, but lately it’s turned into a freak. Something…

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6 May 2017 9:00 am

I’m sitting in my office and the place is still. The rest of the house is dark. Everyone’s out and…

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29 April 2017 9:00 am

Twenty-five years ago this week, Los Angeles was burning because of Rodney King’s beating at the hands of the fuzz,…

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22 April 2017 9:00 am

If any more proof were needed that Brexit is the best thing to happen to Britain since 1066 and all…

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14 April 2017 11:00 pm

Things that I once loved — Fifth Avenue & 57th Street, brownstone terraces on hot summer afternoons, cold beer and…

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8 April 2017 9:00 am

New York   I’d gladly exchange waistlines with him if he’d teach me to cut a phrase the way he…

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1 April 2017 9:00 am

 Gstaad It’s my last week in the Alps, and the snow is gone, replaced by brilliant sunshine. Silence reigns, broken…

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25 March 2017 9:00 am

A cloudless sky, crunchy spring snow, longer, warmer days. I’ve finally got in some good skiing, twisting around moguls like…

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18 March 2017 9:00 am

At a chic dinner party last week, a friendly chow as big and black as a dog can be without…

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11 March 2017 9:00 am

A lousy fortnight if ever there was one. Two great friends, Lord Belhaven and Stenton and Aleko Goulandris, had their…

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9 March 2017 3:00 pm

A lousy fortnight if ever there was one. Two great friends, Lord Belhaven and Stenton and Aleko Goulandris, had their…

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4 March 2017 9:00 am

Gstaad Back in the good old days a funicular used to take skiers up, bucking all the way and stopping…

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2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Gstaad Back in the good old days a funicular used to take skiers up, bucking all the way and stopping…

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23 February 2017 3:00 pm

From my chalet high up above the village, I look up at the immense, glistening mountain range of the Alps,…

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23 February 2017 3:00 pm

From my chalet high up above the village, I look up at the immense, glistening mountain range of the Alps,…

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18 February 2017 9:00 am

Gstaad One’s unpopularity on account of calling it a night diminishes in direct proportion to the severity of the next…

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16 February 2017 3:00 pm

Gstaad One’s unpopularity on account of calling it a night diminishes in direct proportion to the severity of the next…

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11 February 2017 9:00 am

When I was young my recurring nightmare was that I would die and be reincarnated as a polo pony. I…

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9 February 2017 3:00 pm

When I was young my recurring nightmare was that I would die and be reincarnated as a polo pony. I…

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9 February 2017 3:00 pm

When I was young my recurring nightmare was that I would die and be reincarnated as a polo pony. I…

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4 February 2017 9:00 am

When I saw an email from Lucy, the lady who has the unenviable task of editing my copy each week,…

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2 February 2017 3:00 pm

When I saw an email from Lucy, the lady who has the unenviable task of editing my copy each week,…

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28 January 2017 9:00 am

 Gstaad The snows came tumbling down just as the camel-drivers headed back to the Gulf. In fact, they never saw…

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26 January 2017 3:00 pm

 Gstaad The snows came tumbling down just as the camel-drivers headed back to the Gulf. In fact, they never saw…