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Taki has been chronicling the High Life for a quarter of a century for The Spectator. Taki is also the co-founder of the American Conservative magazine. A keen sportsman he has represented Greece at both karate and tennis.

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11th November 2009 Taki

New York

At an outdoor luncheon party in Sussex celebrating Willy Shawcross’s birthday some years ago, I asked his then 95-year-old father whom he found the most interesting man at…

Backing Zac

4th November 2009 Taki

New York

‘Why would he run for Parliament?’ screams the headline in the New York Times. A subheading lists ‘An inherited passion for women, gambling, the environment and politics’. As…

High Life

28th October 2009 Taki

New York

One felt the backlash against the BNP–BBC fiasco all the way to the Big Bagel, with local papers commenting on the lynching of Nick Griffin by rent-a-crowd minorities.…

High Life

21st October 2009 Taki

New York

Something’s bothering me about the Polanski business. No, unlike Harvey Weinstein and Bernard-Henri Lévy — not to mention that Mitterrand paedophile — I will not defend Roman’s actions…

High Life

14th October 2009 Taki

New York

When A Moveable Feast was published in 1964 I had been living in Paris for six years. I was 27 and in love with Papa Hemingway’s favourite city,…

High Life

7th October 2009 Taki

New York

They founded this place 400 years ago this year among the Indians in the marshes, and no one’s looked back since. Some of the Dutch descendants are still…

High Life

30th September 2009 Taki

New York

Cement barriers, stanchions, cop cars, motorcycles, black SUVs, flashing lights, bullhorn warnings to move to the side or else, mean-looking dudes in dark suits, dark glasses and talking…

High Life

23rd September 2009 Taki

New York

Irving Kristol, who died last week, was generally seen as the father of neoconservatism, a non-existent concept in Europe where we’re steeped in more traditional and less opportunistic…

High Life

16th September 2009 Taki

There is a mordant Eskimo proverb that says a good butler is worth at least three wives. The only trouble being I’ve never heard of an Eskimo with a butler.…

High Life

9th September 2009 Taki

Gstaad

From my desk facing the garden I look out on a vista of wooded green hills with an unblemished blue background. Far beyond, the mountains are grey and white-capped…