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New York Alexandra rang me from London to enquire about a man by the name of Klaus Schwab: ‘He sounds…
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New York Back in the good old days the Carlyle Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was the hotel for…
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I celebrate two Easters every year, the Catholic one and the Orthodox one, which means I get very drunk on…
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New York Our own Douglas Murray is the canary in the Bagel coal mine as of late. The left controls…
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The only good news, after the massacres in Ukraine, is that so many ugly behemoth super-yachts have been seized and…
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One hundred or so years ago, a down-in-the-dumps Joseph Roth wrote to Stefan Zweig: ‘The barbarians have taken over.’ Later…
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Something has been bothering me of late, and that is my total lack of schadenfreude. The malicious pleasure at someone’s…
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Two weeks ago in St Moritz I ran into both Nicolas Niarchos and Nikolai von Bismarck, two talented young men…
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If western universities were not brimming with leftist professors, the present situation in Ukraine would surprise no one. History would…
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Gstaad This is my last week in the Alps and I’m trying to get it all in – skiing, cross-country,…
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St Moritz Once upon a time, not that long ago, St Moritz was the world’s greatest resort, an exclusive winter…
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Was it Socrates who said that chaos was the natural state of mankind, and tyranny the usual remedy? Actually it…
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Gstaad I cross-country ski the old-fashioned way, not skating but on machine-made narrow tracks. It is known to be the…
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Gstaad OK sport fans, have you been enjoying the concentration camp Olympics? I’m sure the Uighurs in the Chinese gulag…
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Gstaad Joan Didion, who died last December, took herself extremely seriously. American writers tend to do that, especially those…
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Gstaad Dinner parties are no longer verboten here, so I posed a question to some youngsters my son had over:…
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Gstaad According to a little bird, Boris has gone from brilliant to bawd, and according to me this village has…
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Gstaad Who was it who said good manners had gone the way of black and white TV? Actually it was…
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Gstaad It is hard to imagine that we have reached the year 2022 and are still imposing completely irrelevant…
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A few weeks after Friedrich Nietzsche bragged to an admirer that he had completed a ruthless attack on our Lord,…
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New York Imagine a European country today in which a newspaper in its most populous city launches a mendacious project…
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New York It’s party time in the Bagel, and it’s about time, too. Good restaurants and elegant nightclubs are…
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Gstaad I have two special girlfriends, Lynne and Fiona, the ladies who guard The Spectator’s entrance against the outraged #MeToo…
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New York I’ve never met anyone called Othello, certainly not in Venice nor in Cyprus, but perhaps there are men…
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New York Don’t let anyone tell you the Bagel is worse off than Kabul, where three people were recently shot…
