Edwin Smith

Spear’s editor-in-chief since 2020. Edwin was formerly deputy editor of Spear’s and head of the Spear's Research Unit. He has written for the Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail, Esquire, Wired, Private Eye and the Spectator, among other leading publications and is a regular media commentator on billionaires and the world of private wealth. He has also consulted for brands including KPMG, Google and UBS.

John Caudwell on 1 Mayfair launch: If Elon Musk came to London he’d buy my £200m penthouse

The billionaire's long-awaited super-prime development is targeting record-breaking prices of above £12,000 per square foot

November 4, 2026

John Caudwell on 1 Mayfair launch: If Elon Musk came to London he’d buy my £200m penthouse

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Edwin Smith

John Caudwell on 1 Mayfair launch: If Elon Musk came to London he’d buy my £200m penthouse

The superyacht market may be booming, but it’s still ‘an environment of extreme scarcity’

Matthew Freud: ‘the tradition in our family has been to find the ownable bit of your identity’

First look: super-prime St John’s Wood address, from the man who built Canary Wharf

Introducing Spear’s Magazine: The 20th anniversary issue

World’s biggest superyacht builder: booming market fuelled by ‘new type of wealth’

A former Palantir exec is bringing controversial firm’s ‘DNA’ to the world of family offices

Billionaire former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on his emergence from stealth mode: ‘Business is politics now’

Introducing Spear’s Magazine: Issue 100

Meet Igor Tulchinsky, the billionaire hedge fund manager bringing the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum

Is football financier Amanda Staveley preparing a bid for West Ham?

Gstaad Guy x Bentley: ‘If you know, you know’

Dan Neidle: The rich can still silence their critics with lies