Gianni Agnelli

An elegy on yachting

7 August 2021 9:00 am

Patmos A very long time ago I wrote in these here pages that spending a summer on the Riviera or…

I’m not surprised that my friend Donald Trump is leading in the polls

24 October 2015 9:00 am

As everyone knows, journalists tend to take themselves seriously, especially American journalists, who take themselves very, very seriously. Dan Rather…

The future was looking bleak for a poor little Greek Boy who had turned 30, but then I met Arnaud de Borchgrave

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,…

Another New York institution bites the dust

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…

Come back Aristotle Onassis – all is forgiven

6 September 2014 9:00 am

Back in the very early Sixties there was an uninhabited islet off the west coast of Greece by the name…