Taki Taki

Useful lives

Taki lives the High Life

issue 17 April 2010

New York

If one was making £160,000 per week — that’s more than a quarter of a million dollars every seven days — it would be safe to assume that one’s father would not choose to deal in cocaine for a living. Not necessarily, it seems — at least not in the John Terry family. The man who had to stand down as captain of the England football squad for having screwed a teammate’s girl is a hell of a fellow. His mother and mother-in-law were cautioned last year for shoplifting. Now his old man is charged with dealing in the wrong kind of coke. What in hell’s name is going on here? Modern England, that’s what.

Compare this with one Dave Sime, a fellow I sat next to last week here in the Big Bagel.

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