Taki

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

The Greece I once knew is now just a myth

25 July 2015 9:00 am

I think back to my Greek childhood and longing for the once cosiest and most romantic of cities overwhelms me.…

High life

23 July 2015 1:00 pm

I think back to my Greek childhood and longing for the once cosiest and most romantic of cities overwhelms me.…

Let’s read the riot act to the kleptocrats who are buying us out

18 July 2015 9:00 am

I have signed an affidavit for a hearing in the High Court stating that Janan Harb was, to my knowledge,…

High life

16 July 2015 1:00 pm

I have signed an affidavit for a hearing in the High Court stating that Janan Harb was, to my knowledge,…

Our readers’ tea party

The staff of The Spectator are straight out of a painting by Norman Rockwell

11 July 2015 9:00 am

Wow, what a week. London may be bad for one’s health, but it sure makes it fun on the way…

Our readers’ tea party

High life

9 July 2015 1:00 pm

Wow, what a week. London may be bad for one’s health, but it sure makes it fun on the way…

My big embarrassing Greek royal wedding

4 July 2015 9:00 am

Tempus sure fugit, and how. Twenty years ago, on Saturday 1 July 1995, monarchs from around the world descended on…

High life

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Tempus sure fugit, and how. Twenty years ago, on Saturday 1 July 1995, monarchs from around the world descended on…

Me, Jeremy Clarke and a bottle of absinthe

27 June 2015 9:00 am

Last Wednesday, 24 June, Pugs held a luncheon in honour of our first member to depart for the Elysian Fields,…

High life

25 June 2015 1:00 pm

Last Wednesday, 24 June, Pugs held a luncheon in honour of our first member to depart for the Elysian Fields,…

The subject of immigration has become a means of entrapment

20 June 2015 9:00 am

When I founded the American Conservative 13 years ago — the purpose being to shine a light on the neocon…

High life

18 June 2015 1:00 pm

When I founded the American Conservative 13 years ago — the purpose being to shine a light on the neocon…

Putting Greece on a sound footing is like cleaning out the Augean Stables

13 June 2015 9:00 am

There’s nothing to add to Martin Vander Weyer’s item about Hellas of two weeks ago in these here pages except…

High life

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

There’s nothing to add to Martin Vander Weyer’s item about Hellas of two weeks ago in these here pages except…

Take it from Taki — Hillary Clinton will be the next US president

6 June 2015 9:00 am

The last week in Gotham was exceptional fun. I saw a Broadway play, Finding Neverland, compliments of the producer, my…

High life

4 June 2015 1:00 pm

The last week in Gotham was exceptional fun. I saw a Broadway play, Finding Neverland, compliments of the producer, my…

Taki, the greatest literary critic of our time, picks Fitzgerald’s greatest novel

30 May 2015 9:00 am

An operation on my hand after a karate injury has had me reading more than usual. I even attempted Don…

High life

28 May 2015 1:00 pm

An operation on my hand after a karate injury has had me reading more than usual. I even attempted Don…

I once tried to buy coke from the head of Manhattan detectives

23 May 2015 9:00 am

This is as good as it gets. A light rain is falling on a soft May evening and I’m walking…

High life

21 May 2015 1:00 pm

This is as good as it gets. A light rain is falling on a soft May evening and I’m walking…

Take it from Taki: this could be the start of something really big

16 May 2015 9:00 am

OK. Magnanimity in victory is a sine qua non among civilised men and women, so let me not be the…

High life

14 May 2015 1:00 pm

OK. Magnanimity in victory is a sine qua non among civilised men and women, so let me not be the…

I’d move to Kosovo if Ed Miliband became prime minister

9 May 2015 9:00 am

If any of you sees Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, walking around with a begging bowl in his…

High life

7 May 2015 1:00 pm

If any of you sees Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, walking around with a begging bowl in his…

RIP, Time magazine

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Talk about how the mighty have fallen. Time magazine was for the better part of the 20th century the model…