High life
New York I’m in an extremely happy state as I write this because a young Englishman flew over the ocean…
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New York Nature is at her best right now, the leaves still holding, Central Park awash in golden browns…
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You know you’re old when people start writing kindly about you. Especially when they are colleagues. First Jeremy Clarke, now…
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Everyone’s doing it, so I might as well jump in too. After all, I knew so many of the people…
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I suppose the secret of death is to choose not to expire the same day as famous people. I read…
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New York Hot money from China, India, Russia and Singapore is pouring into London; hotter money from the same countries…
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If, according to a Viennese wit, psychoanalysis is the disease that calls itself the cure, then Steve Cohen’s deal with…
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New York He came from a wealthy background but was always in trouble. His parents were not particularly religious, but…
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New York Libyans are among the most civilised people on earth. When a Russian hooker (I assume) killed a Libyan…
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New York The trouble with driving into the city is nostalgia. Manhattan Island looms into view and it still has…
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Gstaad The Swiss canton of Ticino is holding a referendum on a burka ban, and it is about time, too.…
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Gstaad Why are hacks scared to state the obvious? In Britain the excuse is the strict libel laws. But in…
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To London for a brief visit to meet Spectator readers, as nice a reason as I can think of for…
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I used to see him in El Morocco, the most famous nightclub of its era during the late Fifties and…
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Gstaad I’ve met Stephen Fry twice in my life, both times long ago. The first time at a dinner given…
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Just before I left Gstaad for the Greek islands I went to dinner at Eugenie Radziwill’s, whose other guests included…
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On board the Weatherbird off the Peloponnese The old girl groans and creaks as we tack time and again, the…
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Porto Heli I am standing on the deck of a 100ft schooner that was built in Normandy in 1931 by…
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Gstaad One possesses youth, talent, fame, even beauty, the other none of the above except arrogance, physical repulsiveness and…
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Thun ‘Mokusoo!’ All 200 of us already on our knees and sitting on our heels in the Japanese ‘seiza’ position…
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I am about to leave for karate camp in Thun, Switzerland, four days of double sessions lasting one hour and…
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I remember it well. It was August 1952, and I was dining with my parents on the Palm Beach casino’s…
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The long lazy summer is upon us, and as I walk the Swiss hills below the mountain ranges my thoughts…
