Taki

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

High life

23 July 2016 9:00 am

From my bedroom window I can see a little girl with blonde pigtails riding her bicycle round and round for…

High life

21 July 2016 1:00 pm

From my bedroom window I can see a little girl with blonde pigtails riding her bicycle round and round for…

High life

16 July 2016 9:00 am

The Spectator readers’ party was as always a swell affair, with long-time subscribers politely mingling with ne’er-do-wells like myself, the…

High life

14 July 2016 1:00 pm

The Spectator readers’ party was as always a swell affair, with long-time subscribers politely mingling with ne’er-do-wells like myself, the…

High life

9 July 2016 9:00 am

I am trying to decide with some friends which is worse, English weather or English football. The former is improving…

High life

7 July 2016 1:00 pm

I am trying to decide with some friends which is worse, English weather or English football. The former is improving…

High life

2 July 2016 9:00 am

The two most beautiful words in the history of the world, in any language, are ‘Molon labe’, the accent on…

High life

30 June 2016 1:00 pm

The two most beautiful words in the history of the world, in any language, are ‘Molon labe’, the accent on…

High life

25 June 2016 3:00 am

I always thought the Freuds a pretty sordid bunch, and after the latest revelations it seems I wasn’t far off.…

High life

23 June 2016 2:00 am

I always thought the Freuds a pretty sordid bunch, and after the latest revelations it seems I wasn’t far off.…

High life

18 June 2016 8:00 am

Marion, Baroness Lambert, was hit and killed by a London bus last month while shopping in Oxford Street, a cruel…

High life

16 June 2016 1:00 pm

Marion, Baroness Lambert, was hit and killed by a London bus last month while shopping in Oxford Street, a cruel…

High life

11 June 2016 8:00 am

Shelter Island is nestled in the Long Island Sound, ten minutes by ferry from Sag Harbor and a good 30…

High life

9 June 2016 1:00 pm

Shelter Island is nestled in the Long Island Sound, ten minutes by ferry from Sag Harbor and a good 30…

Why I won’t be watching Wimbledon

4 June 2016 9:00 am

Write about things you really know was the advice Papa Hemingway offered wannabe writers, so here goes: the French Open…

High life

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

Write about things you really know was the advice Papa Hemingway offered wannabe writers, so here goes: the French Open…

Cannes, exclusive? I’ve met classier crowds in brothels

28 May 2016 9:00 am

New York Let’s face it, sleaze is to professional party-givers what jail is to a burglar, an occupational hazard. I’ve…

High life

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

New York Let’s face it, sleaze is to professional party-givers what jail is to a burglar, an occupational hazard. I’ve…

The view from New York tells me that Trump can win it

21 May 2016 9:00 am

   New York I have never seen anything like it. If Adolf Hitler were running for president, he would match…

High life

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

   New York I have never seen anything like it. If Adolf Hitler were running for president, he would match…

Anna Wintour has dragged the Met Gala into the gutter

14 May 2016 9:00 am

New York It was the best of times — downtown — and the worst of times — uptown. Let’s start…

High life

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

New York It was the best of times — downtown — and the worst of times — uptown. Let’s start…

Hearing that 60 is the new 40 makes me want to punch the nearest octagenarian

7 May 2016 9:00 am

   New York I went downtown to Katz’s the other day and had a pastrami sandwich that made me want…

High life

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

   New York I went downtown to Katz’s the other day and had a pastrami sandwich that made me want…

My dream dinner party (think Talleyrand, not Kardashian)

30 April 2016 9:00 am

I read this in an American newspaper (it was written by a woman who used to edit my copy for…