Taki

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

High life

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

I read this in an American newspaper (it was written by a woman who used to edit my copy for…

Why my name didn’t appear in the Panama Papers

23 April 2016 9:00 am

My, my, the rich are under attack everywhere, and I thank God the Panama Papers didn’t include the name of…

High life

21 April 2016 1:00 pm

My, my, the rich are under attack everywhere, and I thank God the Panama Papers didn’t include the name of…

My drunken heckling of General Petraeus landed me in a spot of bother

16 April 2016 9:00 am

New York Harvey Keitel, the actor, rang up to invite me to a Marine shindig where General Petraeus would be…

High life

14 April 2016 1:00 pm

New York Harvey Keitel, the actor, rang up to invite me to a Marine shindig where General Petraeus would be…

Modern feminists should come to me if they want the truth about sex

9 April 2016 9:00 am

   New York Even after all these years, I’m still at times floored by the scale of the place. And…

High life

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

   New York Even after all these years, I’m still at times floored by the scale of the place. And…

Ray Moore lost his job for telling the truth

2 April 2016 9:00 am

My old friend and one-time doubles partner Ray Moore has stepped down as chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis…

High life

31 March 2016 2:00 pm

My old friend and one-time doubles partner Ray Moore has stepped down as chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis…

Marshal Ney

Putin has shown the West up as a paper tiger

26 March 2016 9:00 am

On 17 November 1813, Marshal Ney, the bravest of the brave, had been the last to march out of Smolensk…

Marshal Ney

High life

23 March 2016 3:00 pm

On 17 November 1813, Marshal Ney, the bravest of the brave, had been the last to march out of Smolensk…

Nothing beats skiing with Roger Moore’s son — and Barry Humphries on rare form

19 March 2016 9:00 am

   Gstaad Going up on a chairlift with the town’s doctor, I asked him, ‘How’s business, doc?’ ‘Never better,’ said…

High life

17 March 2016 3:00 pm

   Gstaad Going up on a chairlift with the town’s doctor, I asked him, ‘How’s business, doc?’ ‘Never better,’ said…

Athens today makes me long for an EU bigwig to strangle

12 March 2016 9:00 am

   Athens I am walking around downtown Athens watching as thousands of migrants field pitches from smugglers offering alternative routes…

High life

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

   Athens I am walking around downtown Athens watching as thousands of migrants field pitches from smugglers offering alternative routes…

Who is more undemocratic, Putin or Brussel? I say Brussels — by far

5 March 2016 9:00 am

The rich are under attack nowadays, never more so than in America, where The Donald continues to trump his critics,…

High life

3 March 2016 3:00 pm

The rich are under attack nowadays, never more so than in America, where The Donald continues to trump his critics,…

Here’s how I would deal with the dorks who spread lies online

27 February 2016 9:00 am

One reason I do not tweet, text, use Facebook or Instagram, and only wield a mobile when a landline is…

High life

25 February 2016 3:00 pm

One reason I do not tweet, text, use Facebook or Instagram, and only wield a mobile when a landline is…

Britain’s determination to kill itself makes my blood boil

20 February 2016 9:00 am

   Gstaad The locals here in the beautiful Saanen valley are split over the migrant crisis. Switzerland does not belong…

High life

18 February 2016 3:00 pm

   Gstaad The locals here in the beautiful Saanen valley are split over the migrant crisis. Switzerland does not belong…

Moral sainthood is a bore; sinners are much more fun

13 February 2016 9:00 am

Gstaad I had the rather subversive idea of offering a six-figure sum to Oriel College, Oxford. On one condition: that…

High life

11 February 2016 3:00 pm

Gstaad I had the rather subversive idea of offering a six-figure sum to Oriel College, Oxford. On one condition: that…

The King of Greece tells it like it really was

6 February 2016 9:00 am

Athens Viewed from Mars, this is a sunny, peaceful city. Up close, however, things ain’t what they used to be.…

High life

4 February 2016 3:00 pm

Athens Viewed from Mars, this is a sunny, peaceful city. Up close, however, things ain’t what they used to be.…