Taki

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

We’re all victims in the Bagel now – even me

15 October 2022 9:00 am

 New York That Kim Kardashian dame being fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission for a ‘pump and dump’ scheme…

The lessons of New York’s carnage

8 October 2022 9:00 am

New York I am seriously thinking of visiting a shrink (just kidding) as I now have definite proof that I…

Rupert Murdoch has nothing to fear from me

1 October 2022 9:00 am

Harvard man Russell Seitz has sent me an extraordinary present as an object lesson in ‘what a magazine should be…

In defence of privilege

24 September 2022 9:00 am

Privilege at birth displeases wannabe types, and the subject came up rather a lot last week, especially in the Land…

My lunch with the Queen

17 September 2022 9:00 am

None of this would have happened had I accepted my neighbour’s invitation to dine with a Swiss billionaire banker, or…

I’m a one-woman man

10 September 2022 9:00 am

Gstaad There’s a fin de saison feeling around here, but the restaurants are still full and the sons of the…

My unforgettable night with a musical genius

3 September 2022 9:00 am

Nostalgia barged in like gangbusters. What brought it on was a brief article about the most charming and enchanting of…

It’s back to the 1970s

27 August 2022 9:00 am

Gstaad As the great Yogi Berra explained: ‘It’s déjà vu all over again.’ The great one also contributed the following…

The thrill of sailing rough seas

20 August 2022 9:00 am

Coronis I suppose there’s always a first time, and looking back it was bound to happen. I scrambled off a…

The curse of the jet-ski

13 August 2022 9:00 am

An F. Scott Fitzgerald biographer by the name of David S. Brown refers to America’s promotion of deviancy (my words)…

Sun-drenched days and too much wine: my summer on Patmos

6 August 2022 9:00 am

 Patmos Judging by the news, the world is finally coming apart: Chinese lab escapee Covid is still going strong, monkeypox…

How Monte Carlo went to hell

30 July 2022 9:00 am

I now find resorts more fun out of season. Civilised tourists are as rare as an intelligent Hollywood movie, so…

In praise of Spectator readers

23 July 2022 9:00 am

Michael Beloff, QC and past president of Trinity College Oxford, has just had his memoir reviewed in The Spectator, and…

The Oprah-fication of Wimbledon

16 July 2022 9:00 am

Now that the weakest Wimbledon since 1973 – the year of the boycott – is over, a few thoughts about…

The delights of two-timing

9 July 2022 9:00 am

Looking back and trying to choose just one out of those incomparably bewitching women of one’s youth can be tricky.…

In praise of the London sense of humour

2 July 2022 9:00 am

London As speaker at a posh dinner given by Jonathan and Jake Goedhuis, best UK wine merchants by far, and…

Don’t bet against Emmanuel Macron

25 June 2022 9:00 am

It’s nice to be back on the old continent again, especially after getting within a couple of hundred yards of…

The magic of black and white films

18 June 2022 9:00 am

He is a rich English lord with a very large house and his wife is a beautiful American with a…

The healing power of the Hamptons

11 June 2022 9:00 am

Southampton, Long Island These are peripatetic times for the poor little Greek boy, up to the Hamptons for some sun-seeking…

In praise of Greek royalty

4 June 2022 9:00 am

New York Prince Pavlos, heir to the Greek throne, turned 55 recently and I threw a small dinner for him.…

Welcome to post-truth America

28 May 2022 9:00 am

A couple more weeks in the Bagel and then on to dear old London. I’ve had a very good time…

The art of laziness

21 May 2022 9:00 am

New York Living a life of pleasure is fun, but it can also become tiresome. Living an ethical life of…

Is Klaus Schwab the greatest threat of our time?

14 May 2022 9:00 am

New York Alexandra rang me from London to enquire about a man by the name of Klaus Schwab: ‘He sounds…

The day Elizabeth Taylor kidnapped my daughter

7 May 2022 9:00 am

New York Back in the good old days the Carlyle Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was the hotel for…

The glory days of Central Park

30 April 2022 9:00 am

I celebrate two Easters every year, the Catholic one and the Orthodox one, which means I get very drunk on…