Football’s moral bankruptcy shames the globe and irritates fans
Football is in the throes of an identity crisis as big money, unsuitable owners and utterly inappropriate countries use the…
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Worst literary dystopia to live in?
Author: Aoife Moriarty Some of this genre’s most famous works – including Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four –…
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Zak Smith on why suspect tycoons and corrupt countries are making the beautiful game ugly Football is in the throes…
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Krug matches champagne with concertos in sparkling performance
If you haven’t made plans for tonight already, it’s time to head east. Forget the hipsters and their snazzy bars,…
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Guest Recipe: Philippe Agnello’s Berber Crepes
Pancake Day may be over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t continue to enjoy delicious crepes throughout the year. Try…
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The Berkeley’s Marcus Wareing shows how hotel dining has gone from stuffy to sought-after
The hotel dining room has many faces – it can swing wildly between your grandmother’s front room and a beautifully…
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The Dorchester offers soirées in the kitchen – where all good evenings end
As that very catchy Ikea advert said ‘you always end up in the kitchen at parties’. Although I doubt the…
ByGuest Recipe: Philippe Agnello's Berber Crepes
Pancake Day may be over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t continue to enjoy delicious crepes throughout the year. Try…
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The Berkeley's Marcus Wareing shows how hotel dining has gone from stuffy to sought-after
Hotel restaurants, much like hotel bars which have transformed from their formative days as watering holes into chic retreats, are…
ByThe Dorchester offers soir’es in the kitchen – where all good evenings end
The Dorchester’s private dining room already offers great access to the heart of this busy working kitchen. However, if that…
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Cartier watches experience an uptick in fortune
Author: Spear’s Editorial HAUTE IN THE COLD If you found yourself in Paris this winter, you might have had occasion…
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The attractions and dangers of investing in the luxury sector
The luxury sector is predicted to register significant growth over the next ten years with a recent study from the…
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Forget the water skiis, it’s all about flyboarding
Debuting at the jetski World Championship in 2012, flyboarding is an adventure water sport that is yet to fully enter…
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Gaziano & Girling reinstates the quintessential English gentleman’s shoe
BROGUE TRADERS Shoes can be quite a giveaway. France’s president, a certain Monsieur François Hollande, learnt that the hard way:…
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Shinola brings unexpected luxury to downtrodden Detroit
MOTOWN ARTISTS Jacques Panis had a whizzy job working in tech in Dallas. Big money, big house, big car. But…
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London’s oligarchs needn’t fear sanctions over Crimea
From restaurants in Knightsbridge to estate agents in Mayfair, London is addicted to Russian money. After the crash of 2007,…
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London’s trays of caviar and Krug-filled ice buckets have begun to shake under the ominous rumbling of Russian tanks on…
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London becomes leading destination for fine dining
London and Paris have the best fine dining restaurants in the world, according to the Elite 100 Restaurants 2014. Both…
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Forget Cary Grant or George Sanders – the Duke of Windsor is last century’s style guru
TWEED TRAILBLAZER I am occasionally asked who I regard as my greatest influences in dressing. In early days as a…
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Jo Malone on the sweet smell of success
Spear’s Young Turk Awards 2014 British businesswoman and perfumiere, Jo Malone, gives a thought-provoking speech at the Spear’s Young Turk…
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