High life
High life
An intelligent letter from a reader, Stanislas Yassukovich CBE, warms my heart. It’s nice to know there are others as…
High life
The time-honoured saying that England’s great battles have been won on the playing fields of Eton is a lot of…
High life
This is about life up high. Two weeks ago The Spectator had that rapscallion and mischief-maker Peter McKay writing about…
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Athens This grimy semi-Levantine ancient city has its beauty spots, with childhood memories indelibly attached. There is a turn-of-the-century apartment…
High life
Next time you read about an auctioneer’s gavel coming down on a $150 million painting bought by some flunkey representing…
High life
Ibiza This island is the Spanish equivalent of the Greek sex rock of Mykonos, except its waters are murkier, its…
High life
Back in the very early Sixties there was an uninhabited islet off the west coast of Greece by the name…
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Can somebody tell me when America last got it right? Uncle Sam’s track record in selecting leaders in faraway places…
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Gstaad In this freewheeling Swiss village of the 1950s, the unconventional was the norm and monumental drinking commonplace, but the…
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Porto Cheli Nothing is moving, not a twig nor a leaf, and I find myself missing the cows, the mountains…
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Porto Cheli I have been thinking about my children and my own strange boyhood as I gaze up at the…
High life
Gstaad I am looking out of my window at the green landscape and forested mountains rising beyond, as peaceful a…
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One event I regretted missing on my last visit to London was a party at the Polish Club, which has…
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Gstaad I write this on 14 July, France’s big day and the 25th anniversary of my father’s passing. He died…
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Island of Rhodes When I’m on the water, I feel I was born to it. Yachting has always been a…
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To Fort Belvedere for a ball that most likely will discourage any more balls because of its brilliance and perfection.…
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When I hear the words Sykes-Picot I more often than not feel like punching an Englishman or a Frog —…
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As everyone who has ever joined a club knows, Pugs is the world’s most exclusive one, its members ranging from…
High life
Gstaad A slight bump at 30,000 feet concentrates the mind, as the good Dr Johnson said about an appointment with…
High life
Last week in the Bagel, and then London here I come. As I write, hundreds of thousands of Jews are…
High life
New York Here’s a question for you loyal readers: if a hubby asks his wife to cook him a hearty…
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So the wedding of my little girl to Andy Bancroft Cooke went off without a hitch, a wonderful ceremony in…
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Like the late Christopher Hitchens who only discovered his Jewish roots once he had moved to New York in the…
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For some of you younger readers the name Schmuel Gelbfisz will not ring a bell. Yet back in the Thirties…
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The vicissitudes of getting old are linked to the mystical innocence of childhood as one daydreams the precious time away.…
