High life
Shame on all of you
Taki
New York
Some very strange things are happening back in old England. Prince Charles finds Barbra Streisand sexy, and a towelhead born in an Egyptian slum goes around threatening the government. I'll take them separately I'm the first to agree that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but Barbra Streisand sexy? Surely this must be a misprint. Streisand, in her demure little-girl-lost act, Comes across like Woody Allen in drag. If the prince thinks that's sexy, he really should resign in favour of his son. The bar- baric hoopla of Hollywood hype might work on a brain-dead public over here, but it ain't good enough for a future monarch. Streisand may have never lost a beauty contest in a dog show, but she's got a mes- sage a pidgeon wouldn't carry, and a figure that sags like a collapsed cake and is singularly resistant to verbal definition. No wonder the royal marriage went wrong. The man's taste in women is too awful for him to be accepted as an adulterer.
Now for the towelhead. A year or so ago, I wrote something nice about Harrods and their PR rang the sainted publisher and told him that I was welcome anytime to go around and help myself. I was tempted, but only for a second. I know these towelheads and how they operate. You'll take an inch, they'll claim a mile, and then believe you owe them for the rest of their miserable lives. But that's not the point I'm trying to make. It was made perfectly last week in Boris Johnson's column. What has hap- pened to Britain? Is the word of an Egyp- tian grocer worth more than that of a minister of the Crown, and a grocer who tried to clear his name in the highest court in Europe. In most civilised countries the man who tries to tempt and corrupt is as guilty as those tempted.
When I owned hotels in Greece, politi- cians not only lived in them the year round for a minimal rate, they also got free con- ference rooms with food and drink thrown in during electoral campaigns. The only favour I ever asked was for a gun permit and a driving licence, and got both. This is the way it should be. Honest politicians are not in politics for the money, so why not pitch in and help when it's easy for one. Like having them to stay for free and so on. But this bum Fayed is on an ego trip. He even threatened my friend Sir Peter Tapsell with a lawsuit. The government, as always, has given in, thrown a good man to the wolves, and will probably try and make peace with the Brunei front man. The press, too, is quiet about Fayed, probably because he's leaking stuff to them. It is almost as shameful as the taste of the Prince.
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