Taki: Why JFK wouldn't have steered clear of Vietnam if he had lived
Everyone’s doing it, so I might as well jump in too. After all, I knew so many of the people…
Taki: RIP John Jay, my brave friend who refused to take part in vulture capitalism
I suppose the secret of death is to choose not to expire the same day as famous people. I read…
Taki: Ugly people build ugly things — look at New York and London
New York Hot money from China, India, Russia and Singapore is pouring into London; hotter money from the same countries…
Taki: Why is Steve Cohen still getting away with seven billion big ones?
If, according to a Viennese wit, psychoanalysis is the disease that calls itself the cure, then Steve Cohen’s deal with…
Taki: Watch James Toback’s film starring Alex Baldwin and me
New York He came from a wealthy background but was always in trouble. His parents were not particularly religious, but…
Taki: My main gripe with Gaddafi is the quality of his cocaine
New York Libyans are among the most civilised people on earth. When a Russian hooker (I assume) killed a Libyan…
Taki: Mayor Bloomberg has sold New York out to the highest bidder
New York The trouble with driving into the city is nostalgia. Manhattan Island looms into view and it still has…
Bicyclists in burkas
Gstaad The Swiss canton of Ticino is holding a referendum on a burka ban, and it is about time, too.…
ANOTHER media failure. How does Tina Brown get away with it?
Gstaad Why are hacks scared to state the obvious? In Britain the excuse is the strict libel laws. But in…
Taki: My perfect afternoon? Getting drunk with Spectator readers
To London for a brief visit to meet Spectator readers, as nice a reason as I can think of for…
Taki: perhaps Obama should read All Quiet on the Western Front
I used to see him in El Morocco, the most famous nightclub of its era during the late Fifties and…
Taki: Stephen Fry and the gay lobby should cool it over the Winter Olympics
Gstaad I’ve met Stephen Fry twice in my life, both times long ago. The first time at a dinner given…
If all left-wing academics were as nice as John Sutherland, Taki would tolerate Hush Puppies
Just before I left Gstaad for the Greek islands I went to dinner at Eugenie Radziwill’s, whose other guests included…
The only things modern Greece inherited from the Ancients are jealousy and envy
On board the Weatherbird off the Peloponnese The old girl groans and creaks as we tack time and again, the…
Taki: I’m on Hemingway’s boat — but there’s no bringing back the old Riviera
Porto Heli I am standing on the deck of a 100ft schooner that was built in Normandy in 1931 by…
Taki: What Roger Federer and Anthony Weiner have in common
Gstaad One possesses youth, talent, fame, even beauty, the other none of the above except arrogance, physical repulsiveness and…
Taki: The morality of karate
Thun ‘Mokusoo!’ All 200 of us already on our knees and sitting on our heels in the Japanese ‘seiza’ position…
Taki: High life
I am about to leave for karate camp in Thun, Switzerland, four days of double sessions lasting one hour and…
High life:My first Egyptian coup
I remember it well. It was August 1952, and I was dining with my parents on the Palm Beach casino’s…
Taki: why would anyone want 72 virgins? They're useless in bed
The long lazy summer is upon us, and as I walk the Swiss hills below the mountain ranges my thoughts…
