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There’s a narrow stretch of Chelsea, south of the King’s Road from Oakley Street to Ormonde Gate, that reminds me…
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New York I find most films nowadays as fascinating as a lengthy history of orthodontics but then I’m spoilt rotten,…
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New York ‘The City of London is hiding the world’s stolen money’, screams a Bagel Times headline, as bogus…
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They have stepped into the pop-culture spotlight via the HBO hit Succession, a hatchet job on the very rich and…
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Around 20 or so years ago I had a point for match point on a perfect grass court at Fort…
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Do any of you remember the time when everything took place on the terraces and in outdoor cafés? Before everyone…
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It’s nice to be back in London, and Glebe Place is a delight. Mind you, it’s not the mansion I…
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Memories for me are like beautifully edited copy: all cleaned up and retaining only the good parts. The wife tells…
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Gstaad Mercedes Benz heir Mick Flick and I have been friends for more than half a century. We both married…
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Gstaad Good manners aside, what I miss nowadays is a new, intelligent, finely acted movie. Never have I seen…
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Gstaad When Gerald Murphy and Cole Porter discovered the French Riviera as a summer resort during the early 1920s, the…
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Gstaad It seems to be open season on the royals, starting with Prince Andrew and the charges against him by…
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Coronis Embracing one’s vulnerability seems to have replaced the higher, faster, stronger ethos of the Olympics. The very frailty that…
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Patmos A very long time ago I wrote in these here pages that spending a summer on the Riviera or…
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Isle of Patmos Two hundred years ago last March, the Greeks rose up against the hated Turks who had occupied…
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Patmos I’m in Patmos with four grandchildren, two children, and a wife. I know, I know, it sounds very lower–middle-class…
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I write this as a follow-up to last week’s essay on muzzling after making whoopee. I’m on my way to…
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Gstaad After six-and-a-half months apart, I had no trouble recognising my wife. Out she came on to the driveway to…
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New York I hope this is my last week in the Bagel. I plan to fly first to Switzerland and…
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New York I haven’t felt such shirt-dripping, mind-clogging wet heat since Saigon back in 1971. The Bagel is a steam…
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New York It’s party time in the Bagel, or at least private party time. Yours truly is an extra man…
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New York The acerbic writer Gore Vidal was once asked which period of history he would choose to have lived…
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New York The Big Bagel is getting so bad that even the baddies are demanding the fuzz do something. As…
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New York Already on your idiot box via Netflix is a mini-series about a man who also used one name,…
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Taki 3 July 2021 9:00 am
Wimbledon is here at last, after its absence in 2020. What struck me watching the French Open on television a…