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Taki

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

Boris is the only one who can save the Tories

Taki 15 June 2019 9:00 am

A lady once offered to go to bed with me if I could ensure that she would write The Spectator’s…

The joy of my grandson’s baptism

Taki 8 June 2019 8:00 am

They were putting the finishing touches to the giant tent as I drove up to Schloss Wolfsegg after an hour’s…

The softer side of Hemingway

Taki 1 June 2019 9:00 am

I didn’t like it, and then I did like it. But a writer’s job is to tell the truth, as…

My feud with Conrad Black

Taki 25 May 2019 9:00 am

Goody goody gumdrops! The Donald has pardoned Lord Black and I couldn’t be happier. Conrad got a bum deal and…

The death of New York’s nightlife

Taki 18 May 2019 9:00 am

New York   This is my last week in the Bagel and I’m going to give it the old college…

A lament for the UK and the US

Taki 11 May 2019 9:00 am

New York   Here’s a question for you: if your wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, toy boy even, lied repeatedly to…

Sebastian Flyte had nothing on me: memories of a misspent youth

Taki 4 May 2019 9:00 am

Charlottesville is an enchanting Virginia college town graced by the neoclassical architecture of the university’s founder, Thomas Jefferson. I flew…

Young lotharios don't know what they're missing

Taki 27 April 2019 9:00 am

David Niven’s younger son Jamie, now an old man and a bit overweight, approached my table and announced that he…

The comedy and tragedy of Trump

Taki 20 April 2019 9:00 am

New York On 21 April 1980, Rosie Ruiz won the fabled Boston Marathon in record time and looked as fresh…

My advice to men and women

Taki 13 April 2019 9:00 am

OK chaps, keep your hands where people can see them, and don’t touch. And try not to look. Soon that…

Mortimer Sackler and me

Taki 6 April 2019 9:00 am

New York   It was 51 years ago, in the Hôtel du Cap d’Antibes, that I first met the man…

My prescription to make New York happy again

Taki 30 March 2019 9:00 am

New York   This place feels funny, a bit like Beirut, where Christians, Jews, Muslims, Druze and encamped Palestinians live…

I’m back in New York: the city that’s perennially offended

Taki 23 March 2019 9:00 am

New York   Goodbye, snow-capped peaks; hello, swampy brown East River. So long, fresh alpine air; greetings to choking diesel…

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The four times I have lied in 42 years writing this column

Taki 14 March 2019 9:00 am

Gstaad   As Emperor Maximilian told his convulsed-by-tears servants as he was about to be executed by the Mexicans: ‘Who…

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Watching my grandchildren schussing down a mountain is what makes me happy now

Taki 9 March 2019 9:00 am

Gstaad   As everyone knows, the definition of serendipity is searching for a needle in a haystack, and instead finding…

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I’ve contributed greatly to animal welfare, via the casino

Taki 2 March 2019 9:00 am

A rare British species, a womanising ex-foreign secretary, kissed and told about his brief affair with a yellow-eyed temptress last…

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I’m all for abolishing flying: first-class on a liner is far more fun

Taki 23 February 2019 9:00 am

Gstaad   It’s party time here. From the richest billionaires down to those impoverished souls with only a few million…

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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…

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