After Hurricane Sandy: Power-Hungry Refugees and the New Reality
Everyone is talking about the ’new reality’ in which running water and electricity are no longer certainties. The post-Sandy mess…
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Hurricane Sandy: A Party at the Eye of the Storm
On Sunday afternoon my eight-year-old daughter and I flew into New York for a wedding. Now it’s Wednesday and Hurricane…
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ByAn HNW ABC: UVW
The penultimate instalment of our lexicographical endeavour, a dictionary for the super-wealthy The penultimate instalment of our lexicographical endeavour, a…
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When Anne-Marie Slaughter, former director of policy planning at the State Department, penned an article for The Atlantic saying that…
ByGrand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
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ByTitanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew
Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew Richard Davenport-Hines HarperPress, 400pp. Hardback £20, ebook £9.99 Reviewed by Peter York…
ByManaging Family Art Wealth Demands New Standards and Techniques
Many wealthy families are art lovers, own collections or actively buy and sell in the art market. As younger generations…
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Guest Recipe: Oeufs en Meurette by Timothy Mawn
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ByPaper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order
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ByCheek by Jowl: a History of Neighbours
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ByWho’s the next Picasso of Property Prices? Why Artists Can Do Wonders For Local Housing Markets
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ByWhy Does Art by Women Artists Still Sell For Less?
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The Rest of the Mediterranean Could Learn From Turkey
Down in the Dolomites Italy and Greece are all doom and gloom if you believe the ‘awfulising’ mass media —…
ByTurner Prize 2012 Review
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ByCountry Life Cartoonist Annie Tempest’s ‘Leap of Faith’ into Sculpture
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ByWhy People Move From Finance To Art
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