High life
High life
New York The poet was right: April is the cruellest month. We at The Spectator lost Clarissa Tan, my good…
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New York This is a tale of two escape artists in one city. Let’s start with my old friend the…
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America and western Europe sure have their priorities right, blanketing our newspapers, magazines and the airwaves with newsworthy items that…
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New York Back to the mythic city, dreamed into existence by the movies long ago and instantly memorable, a visually…
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On 1 July 1961, a beautiful 17-year-old girl appeared on the cover of Paris Match, then in its heyday: ‘C’est…
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Gstaad The American newspaper that prints only news it sees fit to poison good things recently announced ‘The end of…
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Damn, damn, damn! It has to be me, and all these years I’ve been thinking it was Hollywood. By the…
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Gstaad Walking into a dinner party for 50 chic and some not-so-chic people in a nearby village last week, I…
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Gstaad ‘On ne touche pas une femme, même avec une fleur,’ says an old French dictum, one not always adhered…
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Call me sentimental, but I’ve never seen a better opening ceremony than the Sochi one, evoking Russia’s great past in…
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Gstaad A heavy snowfall diverted 40-odd private jets from landing in Saanen airport, thus the one per cent of the…
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Gstaad If a catastrophic avalanche were to crush the Davos convention hall, where the fat cats of this world were…
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OK, folks. We’ve had enough of Hollande and his rather silly antics, although I do understand the man. Ever younger…
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Al Goldstein, who died recently and made the front page of the New York Times, was among the world’s most…
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Gstaad Although no longer a regular habit, extended benders now turn me into a sort of magnetic field that picks…
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Welcome, Mr 2014, if you turn out as good as Mr 2013 was, we’ll get along just fine. Throughout last…
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This Christmas our thoughts need to be with our fellow Christians who are being threatened in the Bible lands. No…
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New York I’m in an extremely happy state as I write this because a young Englishman flew over the ocean…
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New York Nature is at her best right now, the leaves still holding, Central Park awash in golden browns…
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You know you’re old when people start writing kindly about you. Especially when they are colleagues. First Jeremy Clarke, now…
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Everyone’s doing it, so I might as well jump in too. After all, I knew so many of the people…
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I suppose the secret of death is to choose not to expire the same day as famous people. I read…
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New York Hot money from China, India, Russia and Singapore is pouring into London; hotter money from the same countries…
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If, according to a Viennese wit, psychoanalysis is the disease that calls itself the cure, then Steve Cohen’s deal with…
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New York He came from a wealthy background but was always in trouble. His parents were not particularly religious, but…
