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Gstaad I was reading in these here pages Julie Burchill’s review of Candace Bushnell’s Is There Still Sex in…
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Romy Somerset is the sweetest, nicest young girl in London. She’s also my goddaughter and I remember, during her christening…
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Gstaad The cows are coming down, the cows are coming down, and I’m off to the Bagel. My Swiss…
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New York The master of the love letter to New York, E.B. White, eloquently described the city as a place…
View ArticleWhat you can tell about a man from his choice of underwear
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View ArticleWhy Roy Cohn is not one of the world’s most evil men
New York The Roy Cohn documentary Bully. Coward. Victim: the Story of Roy Cohn was successfully screened at the…
View ArticleWhy Simone de Beauvoir is my kind of woman
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View ArticleThe most uplifting film ever made
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New York A busy ten days, or nights rather, with some heroic drinking thrown in for good measure. Hangovers…
View ArticleMy present abode is one of the great deco houses left intact in the Bagel
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View ArticleI’d rather live under communism than the tyranny of social media
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View ArticleThe cops are impotent in lawless New York
New York Things are heating up, in both London and Nueva York, as this place should correctly be called.…
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No use piling on where Prince Andrew is concerned. It’s a sorry business, and he’s not among the brightest either.…
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View ArticleMy friend Margaret Thatcher
British Conservative Party politician and Secretary of State for Education and Science, Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) delivers a speech from the platform at the Conservative Party annual conference in...
View ArticleWhy 2019 has been a wonderful year
I received my Christmas present earlier than usual. It was a message sent via The Spectator from a gentleman who…
View ArticleThe Middle East for dummies
Gstaad The French have a saying: ‘Il n’y a rien de plus bête que le sourire du gagnant.’ In…
View ArticleTwo books that made me forget everything else
circa 1973: Mitsuo Fuchida as he was when he led the raid on Pearl Harbour (Pearl Harbor) (right) and recently (left) when he was seen struggling across the tarmac with suitcases at London Heathrow...
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Mandatory Credit: Photo by AP/Shutterstock (7408705a) STALIN Soviet Premier Josef Stalin poses at the Potsdam Conference in Germany STALIN POTSDAM CONFERENCE, BERLIN, Germany
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