High Life

Gervas Douglas

Taki, I am sure you will keep her entertained...

Paul Leclercq

Good stuff Mr Taki; I agree 100% and whilst doing so, hope that your future married life well be successful and fulfilling. Please keep entertaining us!

Lydia P Troyer

Congratulations!

Paddy Briggs

Taki - what is the secret? I agree that such a wide age gap need not be a problem but how do you do it?! Every happiness from a jealous old boy...

shlemazl

"I will join the rest of the hypocrites and say that I don't agree with David Irving (I'd like to keep this column ...)" So, only hypocrites don't agree with David Irving?????????????? Wow. Well done, you've got praise from David himself.

Henry Barth

Taki, My best wishes for you and your new bride. May you have a dozen children to help you in your old age. And my thanks for this column. It is so easy and so safe to participate in Irving-bashing, especially without bothering to read what he has said and written that so infuriates his detractors. Even Judge Grey during that infamous libel trial had words of praise for Irving’s historical research. Sir Winston Churchill wrote the definitive six-volume history “The Second World War” and had not a word about the holocaust against the Jews. I presume that makes him a denier of first rank. I noted well that the groups calling for “justice” in bringing mass murderers to trial were silent about Lazar Kaganovich, murderer of millions of Russians and murderer of millions of Ukrainians in the Ukrainian holocaust of the 1930s. He was said to be too old to stand for trial and died in 1991, age 98. Perhaps there is “justice” where we go after death. Let’s pray there is for Mr Kaganovich . All the best, Henry Barth Dublin, Ireland

Kimberley Cornish

Wonderful, wonderful to read. The theme of Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Prize Lecture was “A word of truth outweighs the world.” One despairs of reading the truth from any British journalist, but this was one golden, shining exception. And congratulations on the marriage. May your bride know that like the Abou Ben Adhem of Leigh Hunt's poem, Taki's name stands above all the rest.

John Stone

Very good article. However, if the experience of others is anything to go by, be prepared for the many and powerful enemies you will have made. They will not rest until you have been removed from all public life. Still, you will at least have the luxury of devoting all your time to your new young wife. But be very aware that the same spiteful PC people who enjoyed see Irving gaoled for his beliefs, will regard your new wife as a target as well. She will suffer the same fate as yourself. Unless, of course, she is prepared to denounce you and your 'vile' views. She may have to, if she doesn't want her career cut short.

Tom Blair

Taki - you are a gem. No one else is as delicate yet courageous as you. I only hope that The Spectator is half as courageous as you when the day comes that "powerful forces" demand they fire you. Keep up the great writing.

al simon

Once upon a time, many genetic mutations ago, the majority of people thought just as you do now. People shunned correctness as they would a plague. I commend you and congratulate you on your young bride. Many of us dare only to think of such age differences in marriage but rarely take the step, either through ineptitude or social fear. I often had a nightmare when I was younger, or was it a dream? 90 years old, in a wheel chair, being chased by a jealous teenage husband. You sir are now one of the few who are in the enviable position of giving a factual appraisal as to which it is; dream or nightmare. Love your articles, keep it up. You will now have to.

Stid

What is the difference between a Nazi and a German. The Germans, in a plebiscite after Hitler's election, gave the Nazis an 86% approval rating and carte blanche to do as they wanted - ipso facto, there is no difference between a German and a Nazi. So shall we stop this political correctness and call the Nazis by their proper names - GERMANS.

Hugh McInnish

Glad to see this from Taki. But what happened to him at The American Conservative? Miss him there.

Tjalf Boris Prößdorf

@Stid Only 86%? Well. In my grandfather's village, that was 96% (all but one of the votes). Mind you, when he and his friends discussed the "plebiscite" afterwards, all of them insisted on having cast that one vote ... (try to keep in mind that that was in '36 and the Nazis had by then a hardearned reputation for at least severely beating up people with loose tongues) Make of that little anecdote what you want.