How the Light Gets In 2012
Hay-on-Wye, Wales 31 May-10 June HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, returns to Hay from 31st May to…
ByMonth: May 2012
Spear’s Young Turk Awards 2012 Winners Announced
The awards, recognising the rising stars, aged under 35, of all fields in the private client industries, from wealth management…
ByWBrief: Stanley Gibbons launching rare coin index
As doubts continue about the durability of “fiat” money economies, Stanley Gibbons, the firm famed in the stamp collecting business,…
ByKenny Schachter Reports from ART Hong Kong
I MADE MY first trip to Hong Kong to visit ART HK 12, the 5th iteration of the fair, recently…
ByJulie Meyer's Follow the Entrepreneur Conference
Four Seasons Hotel, Hampshire 25 May Invitation only ’Europe and the UK is being redefined by its entrepreneurs,’ says Ariadne…
ByConfessions of a Chelsea Flower Show Virgin
I was expecting, I think, the equivalent of a couture fashion show, with the most beautiful, complex, ostentatious, impractical designs…
ByChina’s Fragile Banking System Isn’t Cause for Panic
Rising to the Challenge Despite China’s wobbly shadow banking system, it’s not time to hit the panic button yet, says…
ByA Front Row Review of the V&A Ballgowns Exhibition
While in some ways intrinsically frivolous, each of these fabulous, dramatic, skilful dresses tells a story or represents an era,…
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I’ve been excluded from my spouse’s will – what can I do?
The right to choose who inherits one’s wealth, and how, is a right that the English take for granted –…
ByAn HNW ABC: NOP
The fifth instalment of our lexicographical endeavour, a dictionary for the super-wealthy Names: These are very important for setting the…
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I’m Not An Extremist Really, Just a Traditionalist
Alessandro Tomé isn’t a political extremist, surely? He has a liberal approach to hanging and flogging liberal amounts of it……
ByPrime Minister’s Letter to William Cash
David Cameron wrote to William Cash after Spear’s Save Britain’s Historic Landscape campaign to thank him for his work and…
ByHedgehog Issue 26
Big budgets, blown budgets, the Budget Going, Going…Gone! The large Gerhard Richter, a bright squeegee painting, sat impassively on the…
ByFrom William Cash: NPPF Revised but Heritage Protection Bill Needed
While the revised National Planning Policy Framework is a huge improvement on the original draft, Planning minister Greg Clark remains…
ByShare and Shariah Alike: Islamic Finance's Untapped Potential
At a time when the weaknesses of mainstream finance have never been more exposed, Islamic finance offers a thoughtful alternative.…
ByThe Global Economy: Iceberg, Right Ahead!
The jury is still out on whether loading more debt on to over-indebted banks and states, and printing more money,…
ByART HK sells well, to be replaced with Art Basel Hong Kong in 2013
Hong Kong, 21 May 2012 – Good sales were reported at the fifth and last edition of ART HK. The…
ByLord Janvrin
I have to say that I am much enjoying watching from afar the opening events of the Diamond Jubilee. It…
ByEducation Special Leader: An Unfeasible Future
What is the purpose of education? You can extract a reasonable, complex explanation from among the platitudes and pragmatism: a…
By1% Singles Cruises: Pity the Poor, Lonely Rich
They are unlikely targets for public sympathy, but one group at least has got the poor, lonely rich on their…
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