Fake Art Is Fine With Me
Does it really matter if the art wasn’t what it purported to be? Give the people what they want. As…
ByMonth: October 2012
Randall & Aubin’s Office Lunches
Soho stalwart Randall & Aubin recently started delivering restaurant-quality lunches to office workers in central London. Preliminary reactions from a…
ByNyetimber Produces England’s First Demi-Sec
Nyetimber has launched England’s first ever demi-sec. “A sparkling wine producer needs to have one in its portfolio,” says Cherie…
ByFood Friday Recipe: Leon Secretan’s Lobster and Asparagus Salad
Lobster and asparagus salad recipe by Leon Secretan, executive chef at The RIBA Lobster and asparagus salad recipe by Leon…
ByReview: Nathan Outlaw’s Seafood and Grill
Two michelin-starred chef, Nathan Outlaw, has recently very recently, only two weeks ago in fact – opened an eponymous restaurant…
ByLa Mamounia Literary Award
Here at Spear’s we are very familiar with Book Awards. Awards that celebrate business books, biographies, large format illustrated coffee…
ByTouring Europe in a Ferrari California
Speed Freak William Cash is not a 200 kilometres-an-hour kind of guy, even with the Ferrari California. Lucky his girlfriend…
ByEven the Super-Rich can be Heroes in Comic Books
Ultra-Man to the Rescue The world of cartoon superheroes has long been a remarkably multicultural, liberal and inclusive one, says…
BySuper-rich Superheroes
As Sam Leith has pointed out in his column, comics provide a rare opportunity for the rich to be the…
ByHNWs Will Have to Work Quickly to Adjust to Stamp Duty Land Tax Changes
The government isn’t giving you or your lawyers much time to adjust to its punishing new stamp duty rules, say…
ByProperty Ownership and Separation
Property ownership can be a difficult issue for courts to resolve when two or more parties go their separate ways,…
ByMacmillan Pie and Prosecco Lunch
Dartmouth House 16 October 2012 12.30-2.30 Following on from the success of the Macmillan Gulls’ Egg City Luncheon and the…
ByWhy Monetary Policy is the Chosen Global Solution to Our Economic Troubles
Quantitative (Dis)easing While the eurozone remains at the back of investors’ minds, governments and central banks from the UK to…
ByAn HNW ABC: UVW
The penultimate instalment of our lexicographical endeavour, a dictionary for the super-wealthy The penultimate instalment of our lexicographical endeavour, a…
ByLeader: No Sweat
The superhuman has been in danger of becoming tediously quotidian: every day someone else is bungee-jumping off a rickety Mexican…
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Mitch Winehouse on the Amy Winehouse Foundation and New Horizon
Back from Black They said goodbye in more than words, and now Mitch Winehouse is celebrating his daughter Amy’s legacy…
ByThe Art Market Boom Frightens Me
Like the stock market, in a (rapidly) rising art market, the good, bad and ugly also rise in unison Let’s…
ByLeader: Euro-Blown
The global economy has just managed to get through bucket-and-spade time without being washed out to sea, but we have…
ByThe Mother of All Problems, Who Can 'Have it All?'
When Anne-Marie Slaughter, former director of policy planning at the State Department, penned an article for The Atlantic saying that…
ByIt Was Right Not to Award the Ibrahim Prize for African Leadership this Year
That the Mo Ibrahim Foundation declined to award the prize to anyone this year strengthens its credibility. But is the…
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