The Gentry: Stories of the English
The Gentry: Stories of the English Adam Nicolson HarperPress, 320 pages Reviewed by Peter York Buy The Gentry:Stories of the…
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The Children of Deposed Royal Families on Life After Revolution
Throne Out What happens to the children of deposed royal dynasties? Sophie McBain finds out ‘WHAT’S THE SENSE of a…
ByMusee d’Orsay Reopens With Masterpieces Intact
by Margaret Kemp We all have favourite museums which, although not visited frequently, deliver the spiritual right stuff, say, in…
ByHisham Matar on Gaddafi, the Libyan Revolution and His Father’s Abduction
Hisham Matar’s first novel had huge political resonance in Libya, but both that and his recent second work are personal,…
ByCameron vs the Countryside
Saving Arcadia As part of Spear’s Save Britain’s Historic Landscape campaign, William Cash asks what the countryside is for and…
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Saving Arcadia As part of Spear’s Save Britain’s Historic Landscape campaign, William Cash asks what the countryside is for and…
ByThe Celebrity Baby Nurse
Baby Grand New mother Daisy Prince on the nanny whose celebrity clients, jet-set lifestyle and seen-it-all savoir faire have left…
ByThe Perfect Time to Build Your Own Home
Do Something Constructive With property prices outside London falling and idle contractors eager for work, you can take advantage —…
ByAre Blockbuster Exhibitions Damaging Art?
Queuebism Even if reports of the death of the blockbuster exhibition are somewhat exaggerated, it’s true that galleries are having…
BySon of Pop Ronnie Cutrone
Factory Outlet Anthony Haden-Guest talks to Ronnie Cutrone, who took a circuitous route to Neo-Pop fame, from Warhol to Woody…
ByPhilippe Starck on the Death of Good Design
Enough Already! Philippe Starck on why we need less design, not more, and why any design without moral commitment is…
BySicily is Threatened by Wind Turbines Too
There Goes The Nationhood Andrei Navrozov on all those Mediterranean Arcadias bulldozed in the name of progress — and why…
ByThe Wizard of Lies
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust Diana B Henriques Henry Hold & Co/Times Books, 419…
ByLast Call
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition Daniel Okrent Scribner, 480 pages Reviewed by Mark Le Fanu Buy Last…
ByArt in the Middle East, after the Arab Spring
Cultural Shifts Anthony Downey, editor of new culture venture Ibraaz Publishing, describes how the project evolved against a backdrop of…
ByGaddafi Dead: The Tyrant Has Fallen
Even knowing that Muammar Gaddafi’s death was not an improbable outcome of the final military battle for Sirte, when it…
ByThe Birds and the BJs
Never let your kids’ school interfere with their education — especially not their sex education, says Alessandro Tomé YOU HAVE…
By#occupylsx: Spear’s meets the St Paul’s Protesters
They have set up camp by the steps of St Paul’s to protest about, well, everything from capitalism to cuts.…
By#occupylsx: Spear's meets the St Paul's Protesters
They have set up camp by the steps of St Paul’s to protest about, well, everything from capitalism to cuts.…
ByHopes and Fears for Libya’s Future
Spear’s staff writer Sophie McBain spent nearly three years in Tripoli and here she writes about what she thinks Libya’s…
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