High life

High life

11 April 2015 9:00 am

Ah, spring! The spring of our frostbitten age. At the Polish Club in London, a wonderful place studded with portraits…

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9 April 2015 1:00 pm

Ah, spring! The spring of our frostbitten age. At the Polish Club in London, a wonderful place studded with portraits…

High life

4 April 2015 9:00 am

End of season is always bittersweet, the melting snows a bit like autumn leaves. But the days are longer and…

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2 April 2015 2:00 pm

End of season is always bittersweet, the melting snows a bit like autumn leaves. But the days are longer and…

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28 March 2015 9:00 am

It’s a famous quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one that Elton John should ponder (when he’s not out shopping, that…

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21 March 2015 9:00 am

As I was flipping through some television garbage trying to induce sleep, I came upon an old western starring Kirk…

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14 March 2015 9:00 am

 Athens I am walking on a wide pedestrian road beneath the Acropolis within 200 meters of the remaining Themistoclean wall…

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7 March 2015 9:00 am

The secret of eternal youth, according to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, is arrested development, and the penny dropped last week. The…

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28 February 2015 9:00 am

Gstaad A naked, very good-looking young man skied down the mountain evoking shrieks of laughter and admiration from the hundred…

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21 February 2015 9:00 am

I hate to start with a cliché, but Count Arnaud de Borchgrave d’Altena, who died in Washington DC last week,…

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14 February 2015 9:00 am

Gstaad Once upon a time clergymen saw mountain peaks as natural steeples leading them ever closer to God. Doctors considered…

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7 February 2015 9:00 am

The good news is that a Greek suppository is about to relieve the EU’s economic constipation. The bad is that…

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31 January 2015 9:00 am

Thick snow is falling hard and heavy, muffling sounds and turning the picturesque village postcard beautiful. I am lying in…

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24 January 2015 9:00 am

I had a short chat with BBC radio concerning the actor Jack Nicholson, whom I knew slightly during the Seventies…

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17 January 2015 9:00 am

This is a good time to write about a nation’s resilience in the face of calamity. I am referring to…

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10 January 2015 9:00 am

 Gstaad The very end of 2014 laid an egg, and an expensive one at that. I missed David Tang’s bash…

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3 January 2015 9:00 am

Welcome to 2015, the year that speaking and writing freely had to stop. Anything that might cause trauma to anyone…

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13 December 2014 9:00 am

Here is my Christmas gift to Spectator readers, one that applies mostly to unmarried males, but is also available to…

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6 December 2014 9:00 am

Except for sickness in one’s family or the loss of a life, is there anything sadder than to see a…

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29 November 2014 9:00 am

The leaves are falling non-stop, like names dropped in Hollywood, and it has suddenly turned colder than the look I…

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22 November 2014 9:00 am

To the grand Herrera house on the upper east side of Manhattan for lunch in honour of Lord and Lady…

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15 November 2014 9:00 am

Aleko Goulandris is my oldest and closest friend. We met in the summer of 1945, at the Semiramis hotel in…

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8 November 2014 9:00 am

To Newport, Rhode Island, the smallest state in the Union but one of the most beautiful. Driving north-east from the…

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1 November 2014 9:00 am

Autumn in New York: they even wrote a song about it that was a great hit 60 years ago. Last…

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25 October 2014 9:00 am

I have always believed that the mission of most movies made after the Fred & Ginger era has been to…