High life
High life
New York That Kim Kardashian dame being fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission for a ‘pump and dump’ scheme…
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New York I am seriously thinking of visiting a shrink (just kidding) as I now have definite proof that I…
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Harvard man Russell Seitz has sent me an extraordinary present as an object lesson in ‘what a magazine should be…
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Privilege at birth displeases wannabe types, and the subject came up rather a lot last week, especially in the Land…
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None of this would have happened had I accepted my neighbour’s invitation to dine with a Swiss billionaire banker, or…
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Gstaad There’s a fin de saison feeling around here, but the restaurants are still full and the sons of the…
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Nostalgia barged in like gangbusters. What brought it on was a brief article about the most charming and enchanting of…
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Gstaad As the great Yogi Berra explained: ‘It’s déjà vu all over again.’ The great one also contributed the following…
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Coronis I suppose there’s always a first time, and looking back it was bound to happen. I scrambled off a…
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An F. Scott Fitzgerald biographer by the name of David S. Brown refers to America’s promotion of deviancy (my words)…
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Patmos Judging by the news, the world is finally coming apart: Chinese lab escapee Covid is still going strong, monkeypox…
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I now find resorts more fun out of season. Civilised tourists are as rare as an intelligent Hollywood movie, so…
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Michael Beloff, QC and past president of Trinity College Oxford, has just had his memoir reviewed in The Spectator, and…
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Now that the weakest Wimbledon since 1973 – the year of the boycott – is over, a few thoughts about…
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Looking back and trying to choose just one out of those incomparably bewitching women of one’s youth can be tricky.…
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London As speaker at a posh dinner given by Jonathan and Jake Goedhuis, best UK wine merchants by far, and…
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It’s nice to be back on the old continent again, especially after getting within a couple of hundred yards of…
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He is a rich English lord with a very large house and his wife is a beautiful American with a…
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Southampton, Long Island These are peripatetic times for the poor little Greek boy, up to the Hamptons for some sun-seeking…
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New York Prince Pavlos, heir to the Greek throne, turned 55 recently and I threw a small dinner for him.…
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A couple more weeks in the Bagel and then on to dear old London. I’ve had a very good time…
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New York Living a life of pleasure is fun, but it can also become tiresome. Living an ethical life of…
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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…
