All Passion Spent
Nick Foulkes on how the wheels came off his posh-car fetish and why his dream ride is now a Moke…
ByMonth: August 2011
Moral Flatliners
Andrei Navrozov on why the Federation Fund — a mysterious Russian charity for children with cancer that doesn’t actually raise…
ByTel: Britain’s most expensive houses
1. £140m – Park Place, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire Bought in August 2011 by an unnamed Russian billionaire from Michael Spink, the…
ByReserve Currency
The Chagos Archipelago, with its countless coral and fish, has faced environmental pillaging. Ernesto Bertarelli explains how he came to…
ByThe Master Switch
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires Tim Wu Atlantic Books, 384pp Winner of a Spear’s Book…
ByA Voice from Old New York
A Voice from Old New york: A Memoir of My Youth Louis Auchinloss Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 224pp Review by Peter…
ByThat’s Hot
Reduce the heating bill for your draughty old country pile by turning the thermostat up! Ross Clark on the government’s…
ByMan Group review of July
Markets in July were dominated by two major macro issues: US debt ceiling negotiations and Eurozone sovereign debt. Concern over…
ByTime is Money
Caroline Garnham on why complicated new rules from the Treasury may be making checking whether you’re a UK resident much…
ByCountry Life: English Heritage on planning policy
Simon Thurley, CEO of English Heritage, writes: Ours is not a crumbling heritage system, as CLA president William Worsley suggests…
ByJohn Studzinski of the Genesis Foundation on his philanthropy at the Royal Court Theatre
THE GIVER AND THE GIFT Zain Alatas speaks to John Studzinski about human dignity and Elyse Dodgson of the Royal…
ByCannes-do!
Only four stars?! That modesty (and the discursive menu) is what makes the Voile d’Or so charming, says William Cash…
ByAccentuate the Positive
FROM A GEOPOLITICAL perspective, just about everything that might have gone wrong in the first half of 2011 probably has:…
ByA Riviera Runs Through It
Oliver Thring on the curious cocktail of grime, glamour, sun and seediness that makes the Côte d’Azur as intoxicating today…
ByDalmatian Hotspots
There’s much more to Dubrovnik than the superyachts and swishy villas clustered along the gorgeous coastline. Eat, drink, explore, says…
ByRepeat Offenders
Alessandro Tomé on the rank hypocrisy of British newspaper readers, the feral hostility of Ryanair staff and the sheer folly…
ByFair Residues
New York-based artist Richard Dupont makes transparent sculptures filled with household waste. But that doesn’t mean his work is rubbish,…
ByHands Off the Loot!
FOR ANY HIGH-NET-WORTH individual, safeguarding one’s money from attack, either from the tax man or other predators, is normally a…
ByWhat Is Luxury? At Last, An Answer
Spear’s has learned of one pioneering individual who decided to make a stand against the overuse of ‘luxury’ by Sophie…
ByProtect Rural Life
Local regional economic growth and a distinctive character of rural life go together, and cannot be severed This is part…
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