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Glenmorangie gives customers choice of tipple with personalised whisky
Drinkers can choose their tipple, but they rarely have a say in how that tipple is made. Now Glenmorangie has…
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Sitwell scoffs at Tsiakkos & Charcoal, Marylands Road
‘Please don’t tell everyone about this place,’ my friend pleaded as we nestled into a long and wonderful lunch at…
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We should value our private literature collections, not cast them off as clutter
Author: Sam Leith ‘Where in God’s name did the copy of Nana Mouskouri’s memoirs, signed affectionately to me, come from?…
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Citi’s Choir could snowball into wealth of business behemoth TV talent
You can imagine my surprise when I turned on BBC2 the other night to watch The Choir: Sing While You…
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David didn’t win the choir’s solo part, but Citi’s brave decision to submit a team of bankers was an interesting…
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Sculptor Emily Young carves out life in Italian convent but British foundations remain
HEART OF STONE Sculptor Emily Young may no longer live in England, having found contentment in an Italian convent, but…
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Editor’s Letter 35 on bribery, Chinese mistresses and draconian NY co-ops
Cheat? Us? Never! We’re as honest as the day is long (especially if that day is spent lazing on a…
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Modern jewellery’s time to shine
STARS IN THE MAKING Fine jewellery is no longer the monopoly of the great houses (glorious as they are), writes…
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We’ve run a tricksy thread through issue 35, focusing on cheating in all its manifestations. Forewarned and all that Cheat?…
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Hedgehog 35 on Brazilian Bentley burial, Frieze Week, £75 million Oxford donation
Spear’s spikiest columnists on the latest gossip and goings-on in the City and beyond Name game Hedgehog dropped in on…
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Review of Bacon and Moore’s Flesh and Bone exhibition, Ashmolean
There is a familiar strangeness in the third floor rooms of the Ashmolean. In a museum chronicling the stories of…
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Elusive Sketch restaurateur Mourad Mazouz gives rare interview to Spear’s
SKETCH ARTIST Whatever happened to Mourad Mazouz? Far from having vanished, the low-profile mastermind behind Momo and Sketch is in…
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Letter from William Cash on countryside communities
Back in September, I spoke at the Blenheim Palace Literary Festival on the subject of ‘Is the English countryside dying?’…
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Spear’s spikiest columnists on the latest gossip and goings-on in the City and beyond Spear’s spikiest columnists on the latest…
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Review of Bacon and Moore's Flesh and Bone exhibition, Ashmolean
These giants of 20th century art complement and contrast in equal measure, both offering different vantage points and providing the…
ByElusive Sketch restaurateur Mourad Mazouz gives rare interview to Spear's
Whatever happened to Mourad Mazouz? Far from having vanished, the low-profile mastermind behind Momo and Sketch is in fact as…
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From turkey to tortellini, our foodie friends share their Christmas traditions
Every family has their own way of doing things at Christmas from how early or late the tree goes up…
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Sitwell scoffs at Ethiopian cuisine, One Leicester Street and Boisdale of Belgravia
Next time you find yourself trekking through the Simien mountains of Ethiopia (pictured below) – who knows, possibly raising funds…
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Emily Rookwood’s Christmas Cake family recipe
You can’t have Christmas without Christmas cake even if, like me, you are mainly in it for the marzipan. Yes,…
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