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Taki

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

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Faithless husbands can be the best husbands

Taki 16 February 2019 9:00 am

Gstaad   Who was it that said we always hurt those we love the most? I did just that last…

In Gstaad neither poor nor rich worry about inequality

Taki 9 February 2019 9:00 am

Gstaad   Here in Gstaad there is no worker alienation. Nor are the rich especially worried. The talk is about…

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Why New York loves John Bercow

Taki 2 February 2019 9:00 am

‘The British political class has offered to the world an astounding spectacle of mendacious, intellectually limited hustlers.’ This is a…

Roger Federer during his fourth round match against Stefanos Tsitsipas in the 2019 Australian Credit: photo by Jack Thomas/Getty Images

My hero Roger Federer

Taki 26 January 2019 9:00 am

Asked how he was feeling as he was about to give a speech to a ladies group, Mark Twain, looking…

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Taki: Should I just move to a cave in France?

Taki 19 January 2019 9:00 am

Gstaad   Do any of you know what cisgender is? I just found out. Cisgender is a term that describes…

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Why 1919 wasn’t the year it’s cracked up to be

Taki 12 January 2019 9:00 am

Gstaad The funny thing is that I was at school with a man called Ted Widmer, and I recently read…

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In praise of pomposity

Taki 5 January 2019 9:00 am

Gstaad My annual end-of-year party in the Bagel was a bust. Too many people brought their friends and I ended…

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, March

Why I have fallen out of love with Donald Trump

Taki 15 December 2018 9:00 am

Here we are, 41 years down the road, and I’m once again writing for The Spectator’s Christmas issue. This is…

Times Square

New York: the fact – and fiction

Taki 8 December 2018 9:00 am

New York At times I used to think the place was real. The New York of films, that is. The…

Homo floresiensis, living on the Indonesian island of Flores as recently as 18,000 years ago, had a skull the size of a grapefruit

Human evolution: a short essay

Taki 1 December 2018 9:00 am

This makes Brexit take a back seat: hints of ancient life have appeared on Mars. Carbon building blocks and other…

An extraordinary encounter in a New York taxi

Taki 24 November 2018 9:00 am

New York   If I wrote this in one of those newspaper diaries about metropolitan life, no one would believe…

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I love life – and girls – too much to act my age

Taki 17 November 2018 9:00 am

New York A little Austrian count was born to my daughter last week in Salzburg, early in the morning of…

The New York Times is leader of the pack in its anti-Trump agenda

Trump has driven the American media mad

Taki 10 November 2018 9:00 am

New York   An old-fashioned party is a gathering of friends invited by the host or hostess, who foots the…

Ah, Brooklyn I miss you: Brooklyn Heights, New York

A love letter to Brooklyn Heights

Taki 3 November 2018 9:00 am

New York I now know it by heart. Brooklyn Heights, that is. It takes 35 minutes by cab from where…

circa 1935: A view east on 42nd Street in New York City towards the Chrysler Building. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Requiem for New York

Taki 27 October 2018 9:00 am

New York   In the dark she still looks good. The mystery and magnetism linger until dawn, then you slowly…

Fear and loathing in New York

Why truth gets you nowhere

Taki 20 October 2018 9:00 am

New York   There is fear and loathing in this city, with men looking over their shoulders for the thought…

Partying with the Clintons

Taki 13 October 2018 9:00 am

Gstaad   The bells are ringing, the bells are ringing, ding dong, ding dong. The cows are down from up…

If Jeremy Corbyn gets in, then I’m out

Taki 6 October 2018 9:00 am

To London for much too brief a visit: a marriage, lunch with Commodore Tim Hoare, and a look-see for a…

I’m an equal of Socrates and Wittgenstein — and if anyone disputes it they can go to hell

Taki 29 September 2018 9:00 am

The grandest view of Gstaad and the surrounding Saanen valley bar none — and that includes the vista from my…

An audience with the Pope

Taki 22 September 2018 9:00 am

Perception and reality, truth and falsehood, black and white; nowadays the salivating chattering classes don’t know their arse from a…

The white DJ: permissible only in Palm Beach, Biarritz or on the Riviera

My faux pas at the Duke of Beaufort’s bash

Taki 15 September 2018 9:00 am

A letter from a reader in South Africa mentions that the writer’s father insisted a white dinner jacket was permissible…

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The joy of a Greek summer

Taki 8 September 2018 9:00 am

Some jerk know-nothing writes in an unreadable American newspaper that Greece is back — Athens, actually. He would, he’s an…

Wild flowers and mountain peaks are no substitute for a pretty woman

Taki 1 September 2018 9:00 am

Gstaad The pastoral heaven of this place can get very dull during the summer months. Green hillsides, neat farmsteads, pleasing…

My marriage secret? I’m a faithless husband, but a good one

Taki 25 August 2018 9:00 am

This was a real surprise, and on my birthday (11 August) to boot: a grown man, whose parents I used…

The case for bringing back feudalism

Taki 18 August 2018 9:00 am

Gstaad I need it like Boris needs a bleach job. Another birthday, that is. Birthdays tend to make your life…

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