High life
High life
Wow, what a week. London may be bad for one’s health, but it sure makes it fun on the way…
My big embarrassing Greek royal wedding
Tempus sure fugit, and how. Twenty years ago, on Saturday 1 July 1995, monarchs from around the world descended on…
High life
Tempus sure fugit, and how. Twenty years ago, on Saturday 1 July 1995, monarchs from around the world descended on…
Me, Jeremy Clarke and a bottle of absinthe
Last Wednesday, 24 June, Pugs held a luncheon in honour of our first member to depart for the Elysian Fields,…
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Last Wednesday, 24 June, Pugs held a luncheon in honour of our first member to depart for the Elysian Fields,…
The subject of immigration has become a means of entrapment
When I founded the American Conservative 13 years ago — the purpose being to shine a light on the neocon…
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When I founded the American Conservative 13 years ago — the purpose being to shine a light on the neocon…
Putting Greece on a sound footing is like cleaning out the Augean Stables
There’s nothing to add to Martin Vander Weyer’s item about Hellas of two weeks ago in these here pages except…
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There’s nothing to add to Martin Vander Weyer’s item about Hellas of two weeks ago in these here pages except…
Take it from Taki — Hillary Clinton will be the next US president
The last week in Gotham was exceptional fun. I saw a Broadway play, Finding Neverland, compliments of the producer, my…
High life
The last week in Gotham was exceptional fun. I saw a Broadway play, Finding Neverland, compliments of the producer, my…
Taki, the greatest literary critic of our time, picks Fitzgerald’s greatest novel
An operation on my hand after a karate injury has had me reading more than usual. I even attempted Don…
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An operation on my hand after a karate injury has had me reading more than usual. I even attempted Don…
I once tried to buy coke from the head of Manhattan detectives
This is as good as it gets. A light rain is falling on a soft May evening and I’m walking…
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This is as good as it gets. A light rain is falling on a soft May evening and I’m walking…
Take it from Taki: this could be the start of something really big
OK. Magnanimity in victory is a sine qua non among civilised men and women, so let me not be the…
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OK. Magnanimity in victory is a sine qua non among civilised men and women, so let me not be the…
I’d move to Kosovo if Ed Miliband became prime minister
If any of you sees Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, walking around with a begging bowl in his…
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If any of you sees Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, walking around with a begging bowl in his…
RIP, Time magazine
Talk about how the mighty have fallen. Time magazine was for the better part of the 20th century the model…
High life
Talk about how the mighty have fallen. Time magazine was for the better part of the 20th century the model…
Neither London nor New York will be livable in ten years’ time
A recent column in the FT made me mad as hell. The writer, Simon Kuper, calls Vienna a backwater, which…
High life
A recent column in the FT made me mad as hell. The writer, Simon Kuper, calls Vienna a backwater, which…
The lost talk of old Noo Yawk
New York ‘Gimme a BLT on rye and hold da mayo’ is a great Noo Yawk sound. So is boid…
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New York ‘Gimme a BLT on rye and hold da mayo’ is a great Noo Yawk sound. So is boid…
