Spear’s Submission to the Government on Protecting Britain’s Heritage
Following a six month campaign (Save Britain’s Historic Landscape), starting in August 2011, shortly after the publication of the draft…
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Christmas Cheer, Eurozone Blues and Government Ponzi Schemes
Season’s Bleatings THE FESTIVE SEASON has been upon us. It shouldn’t be a big surprise, for it tends to happen…
ByA Lot of Hot Air!
Part of Spear’s Save Britain’s Historic Landscape Campaign by Chris Heaton-Harris, MP for Daventry I have been contacted by a…
ByNew York Needs an Annabel’s Style Nightclub
Boite the Heck? Sure, the Beatrice was good, clean, grungy fun, but let’s face it, New York is crying out…
ByNew York Needs an Annabel's Style Nightclub
Boite the Heck? Sure, the Beatrice was good, clean, grungy fun, but let’s face it, New York is crying out…
ByTim Minchin, Woody Allen Jesus and Political Correctness
Has political correctness now swung too far the other way in being conservative? Melinda Hughes looks at the case of…
ByShould the Public Spend £50m on a Titian Painting?
Yes, By Jupiter! Is it really worth £50 million of public money for a masterpiece by one of the greatest…
ByLaunch of Edwina Sandys Art
Let’s Do Launch Manhattan has gone dotty for a new book on Edwina Sandys, the flame-haired painter, sculptor and granddaughter…
ByGrief Encounter
Andrei Navrozov remembers his tormented and ultimately tragic college chum Nicholas Hervey, the not-quite Marquess of Bristol AS EVERY FOREIGNER…
ByBoomerang: The Meltdown Tour
Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour By Michael Lewis Allen Lane, 240 pages Review by Christopher Silvester By Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour…
ByThe 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…
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