Taki Taki

Health check

Broadsides from the pirate captain of the Jet Set

issue 15 January 2005

Gstaad

Nothing like the flu to remind one of life’s priorities. It’s health, stupid, with everything else a very distant second. No woman, not even Ashley Judd or Jemima Khan, could get me out of bed and into theirs with a 40

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