And Now for Someone Completely Different
Now we know that Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, is expecting a baby, we thought we’d revisit Caroline Garnham’s…
ByMonth: April 2011
Weathering the Storm
The turmoil of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and unrest in North Africa has failed to derail the bright progress…
ByCynical, Moi?
Is our brand of democracy worth fighting for? Can married women enjoy sex with their husbands? And does my dog…
ByThat's My Bag, Baby
Is there any greater honour, any finer form of flattery than having a posh, practical and well-designed bag named after…
ByPetronella Wyatt
Julian Fellowes’s period drama Downton Abbey, the second series of which is being filmed at Highclere Castle, has prompted a…
ByPainting by Numbers
Hedgehog attends a course on art fraud, and is currently painting his very own genuine Rembrandt Hedgehog attends a course…
ByHow to be Good
There’s no shame in making money from good causes: Josh Spero on the arrival of ‘impact investing’, a third way…
ByWBrief: Julius Baer pays off Germany to end tax inquiry
Swiss private banking group Julius Baer will pay the German authorities a one-off -50 million ($72.5 million) to bring to…
ByBRIC sale
Phillips de Pury Howick Place 14-15 April Website London – Phillips de Pury & Company, is pleased to announce the…
ByChateau Lafake
Get fobbed off with a pricey bottle of bogus Bordeaux — of which there’s more and more about — and…
ByExclusive: Vaughan Smith on Julian Assange
At a talk in Kensington this morning, Vaughan Smith, journalist and host of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, called his guest…
ByRiadical Chic
As unlikely as it seems, Marrakech’s most luxurious hotels are intimately bound up with the raging Arab Spring. Josh Spero…
ByLondon Book Fair
Earls Court 11-13 April Website Taking place every spring in the world’s premier publishing and cultural capital, the London Book…
ByGreene and Hill
I imagine to any passing lorry driver, it probably looked like my car had broken down: it was actually the…
ByBrown's Boomerangs
When he was in No. 10, Brown’s ugly temper turned it into the House of the Flying Mobiles When he…
ByTelegraph: 50p rate to go by 2013
George Osborne is hoping to scrap the 50p top rate of tax in his Budget in 2013, on the back…
ByFour Risks for the Year
In the opening months of 2011 fast-moving events have reshaped the three dimensions – economic, financial and geopolitical – that…
ByIntro
The Spear’s team of critics we will be spotlighting the very best – and occasionally worst – of every month’s…
ByWealth Report: Tax and Kidnapping Send HNWs Fleeing
HNWs relocating around the world are driven by factors as diverse as escaping from tax and avoiding kidnapping, according to…
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