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• Follow the leader 

  New York At an outdoor luncheon party in Sussex celebrating Willy Shawcross's birthday some years ago, I asked his then 95-year-old father whom...

  Spectator, The, 11/14/09 by Taki · More from publication

• Backing Zac 

  New York 'Why would he run for Parliament?' screams the headline in the New York Times. A subheading lists 'An inherited passion for women,...

  Spectator, The, 11/07/09 by Taki · More from publication

• Double standards 

  New York Something's bothering me about the Polanski business. No, unlike Harvey Weinstein and Bernard-Henri Levy - not to mention that...

  Spectator, The, 10/24/09 by Taki · More from publication

• Spiritual guidance 

  New York They founded this place 400 years ago this year among the Indians in the marshes, and no one's looked back since. Some of the...

  Spectator, The, 10/10/09 by Taki · More from publication

• Talking tough 

  New York Cement barriers, stanchions, cop cars, motorcycles, black SUVs, flashing lights, bullhorn warnings to move to the side or else,...

  Spectator, The, 10/03/09 by Taki · More from publication

• A very English thing 

  New York One felt the backlash against the BNP-BBC fiasco all the way to the Big Bagel, with local papers commenting on the lynching of Nick...

  Spectator, The, 10/01/09 by Taki · More from publication

• Political hoaxes 

  New York Irving Kristol, who died last week, was generally seen as the father of neoconservatism, a non-existent concept in Europe where we're...

  Spectator, The, 09/26/09 by Taki · More from publication

• They also serve . . . 

  There is a mordant Eskimo proverb that says a good butler is worth at least three wives. The only trouble being I've never heard of an Eskimo with...

  Spectator, The, 09/19/09 by Taki · More from publication

• As good as it gets 

  Gstaad From my desk facing the garden I look out on a vista of wooded green hills with an unblemished blue background. Far beyond, the...

  Spectator, The, 09/11/09 by Taki · More from publication

• Gentlemen players 

  Gstaad My Davis Cup partner Nicky Kalogeropoulos won both the Wimbledon and Roland Garros junior titles in 1963, and the following year, at...

  Spectator, The, 09/05/09 by Taki · More from publication