Karate
High life
I celebrate two Easters every year, the Catholic one and the Orthodox one, which means I get very drunk on…
High life
New York Back when people used to read newspapers, they called it a ‘human interest’ story. Now it appears as…
High Life
Gstaad It feels like a sepia-tinged melodrama, one directed by the great schlock master Sam Wood. Driving along the winding…
The TV show that rots young minds
How can I phrase it without sounding pompous? When very talented people dine together, it sometimes turns into a contest…
Taki: My #MeToo moment
#MeToo! It happened right here, in Gstaad, last week. A man in his mid-fifties, about six foot tall and 165lb,…
High life
After the heat in Greece, the Alps are cool and green and very comfortable. My sensei Richard Amos is over…
High life
New York I went downtown to Katz’s the other day and had a pastrami sandwich that made me want…
High life
The secret of eternal youth, according to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, is arrested development, and the penny dropped last week. The…
High life
Gstaad Once upon a time clergymen saw mountain peaks as natural steeples leading them ever closer to God. Doctors considered…
High life
Gstaad The very end of 2014 laid an egg, and an expensive one at that. I missed David Tang’s bash…
Letters
On Benefits Street Sir: Fraser Nelson asserts that people in charities do not want to talk about what life is…
High life
New York Nature is at her best right now, the leaves still holding, Central Park awash in golden browns…
Low life
We’d being trying to meet for lunch for weeks, but always something had got in the way and either she…
High life
Thun ‘Mokusoo!’ All 200 of us already on our knees and sitting on our heels in the Japanese ‘seiza’ position…
