Taki

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

High life

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…

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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…

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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…

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28 April 2016 1:00 pm

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

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23 April 2016 9:00 am

My, my, the rich are under attack everywhere, and I thank God the Panama Papers didn’t include the name of…

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21 April 2016 1:00 pm

My, my, the rich are under attack everywhere, and I thank God the Panama Papers didn’t include the name of…

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16 April 2016 9:00 am

New York Harvey Keitel, the actor, rang up to invite me to a Marine shindig where General Petraeus would be…

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14 April 2016 1:00 pm

New York Harvey Keitel, the actor, rang up to invite me to a Marine shindig where General Petraeus would be…

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9 April 2016 9:00 am

   New York Even after all these years, I’m still at times floored by the scale of the place. And…

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7 April 2016 1:00 pm

   New York Even after all these years, I’m still at times floored by the scale of the place. And…

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2 April 2016 9:00 am

My old friend and one-time doubles partner Ray Moore has stepped down as chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis…

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31 March 2016 2:00 pm

My old friend and one-time doubles partner Ray Moore has stepped down as chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis…

Marshal Ney

High life

26 March 2016 9:00 am

On 17 November 1813, Marshal Ney, the bravest of the brave, had been the last to march out of Smolensk…

Marshal Ney

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23 March 2016 3:00 pm

On 17 November 1813, Marshal Ney, the bravest of the brave, had been the last to march out of Smolensk…

High life

19 March 2016 9:00 am

   Gstaad Going up on a chairlift with the town’s doctor, I asked him, ‘How’s business, doc?’ ‘Never better,’ said…

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17 March 2016 3:00 pm

   Gstaad Going up on a chairlift with the town’s doctor, I asked him, ‘How’s business, doc?’ ‘Never better,’ said…

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12 March 2016 9:00 am

   Athens I am walking around downtown Athens watching as thousands of migrants field pitches from smugglers offering alternative routes…

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10 March 2016 3:00 pm

   Athens I am walking around downtown Athens watching as thousands of migrants field pitches from smugglers offering alternative routes…

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5 March 2016 9:00 am

The rich are under attack nowadays, never more so than in America, where The Donald continues to trump his critics,…

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3 March 2016 3:00 pm

The rich are under attack nowadays, never more so than in America, where The Donald continues to trump his critics,…

High life

27 February 2016 9:00 am

One reason I do not tweet, text, use Facebook or Instagram, and only wield a mobile when a landline is…

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25 February 2016 3:00 pm

One reason I do not tweet, text, use Facebook or Instagram, and only wield a mobile when a landline is…

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20 February 2016 9:00 am

   Gstaad The locals here in the beautiful Saanen valley are split over the migrant crisis. Switzerland does not belong…

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18 February 2016 3:00 pm

   Gstaad The locals here in the beautiful Saanen valley are split over the migrant crisis. Switzerland does not belong…

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13 February 2016 9:00 am

Gstaad I had the rather subversive idea of offering a six-figure sum to Oriel College, Oxford. On one condition: that…