Taki

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

High life

21 January 2017 9:00 am

 Athens I can only ask sardonically: was it worth it? Executed after unspeakable torture without giving anything away — and…

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19 January 2017 3:00 pm

 Athens I can only ask sardonically: was it worth it? Executed after unspeakable torture without giving anything away — and…

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14 January 2017 9:00 am

There are Dames and there are dames. Dame Vivien, an old friend, became one for her philanthropy. Dame Edna, the…

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12 January 2017 3:00 pm

There are Dames and there are dames. Dame Vivien, an old friend, became one for her philanthropy. Dame Edna, the…

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7 January 2017 9:00 am

Gstaad  New Year’s Eve was a Rhapsody in Blue, with a clarinet glissando that promised joys to come, and the…

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5 January 2017 3:00 pm

Gstaad  New Year’s Eve was a Rhapsody in Blue, with a clarinet glissando that promised joys to come, and the…

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29 December 2016 3:00 pm

What a great year this has been, what a good mood I’m in, why, it’s almost like being in love.…

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29 December 2016 3:00 pm

What a great year this has been, what a good mood I’m in, why, it’s almost like being in love.…

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10 December 2016 9:00 am

Here we go again, my 40th Christmas column in a row, and it seems only two weeks ago that I…

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8 December 2016 3:00 pm

Here we go again, my 40th Christmas column in a row, and it seems only two weeks ago that I…

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3 December 2016 9:00 am

Richard Spencer made the front page of the New York Times two days in a row last week, and earned…

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1 December 2016 3:00 pm

Richard Spencer made the front page of the New York Times two days in a row last week, and earned…

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26 November 2016 9:00 am

New York   If only my wordsmith friend Jeremy Clarke had been with me. What fun he’d have had with…

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24 November 2016 3:00 pm

 New York   If only my wordsmith friend Jeremy Clarke had been with me. What fun he’d have had with…

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24 November 2016 3:00 pm

 New York   If only my wordsmith friend Jeremy Clarke had been with me. What fun he’d have had with…

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19 November 2016 9:00 am

New York   The only thing worse than a sore loser, I suppose, is a sore winner, but thank God…

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17 November 2016 3:00 pm

New York   The only thing worse than a sore loser, I suppose, is a sore winner, but thank God…

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12 November 2016 9:00 am

 New York Americans have been to the polls. Everything is over but the shouting — by the loser, that is:…

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10 November 2016 3:00 pm

 New York Americans have been to the polls. Everything is over but the shouting — by the loser, that is:…

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5 November 2016 9:00 am

Sixty years ago this week all hell broke loose: Soviet tanks rumbled into Budapest and put down a nationalist uprising…

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3 November 2016 3:00 pm

Sixty years ago this week all hell broke loose: Soviet tanks rumbled into Budapest and put down a nationalist uprising…

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29 October 2016 9:00 am

I was not on the winning side of the debate, despite giving it the old college try. Thank god for…

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27 October 2016 2:00 pm

I was not on the winning side of the debate, despite giving it the old college try. Thank god for…

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22 October 2016 9:00 am

New York Antonio Cromartie is one of the numerous professional and amateur athletes in America who now refuse to stand…

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20 October 2016 2:00 pm

New York  Antonio Cromartie is one of the numerous professional and amateur athletes in America who now refuse to stand…