Letters to the Editor
A selection of correspondence from the Spear’s postbag. Extermination of Exiles Dear Sir, I found Andrei Navrozov’s interview with Michael…
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Picture of Health?
Smash your icons and cast down your idols Judgment Day is upon us. Galleries and auction houses are seeing their…
ByConfessions of a Wealth Addict
It’s been years since I kicked the wealth habit. I don’t do money anymore. Haven’t had any since 2005. It’s…
ByYour Letters Wanted
Spear’s WMS is keen to hear its readers’ responses to its articles and thoughts on their issues and themes: if…
ByGucci Wars: How I Survived Murder and Intrigue at the Heart of the World’s Biggest Fashion House
Gucci Wars: How I Survived Murder and Intrigue at the Heart of the World’s Biggest Fashion House Jenny Gucci John…
ByIt’s Not All About Money: Memoirs of a Private Banker
It’s Not All About Money Memoirs of a Private BankerHans J Baer Beaufort Books Review by Martin Vander Weyer ‘The…
ByWealth, War and Wisdom
Wealth, War and Wisdom Barton Biggs Wiley Review by Christopher Silvester Reading this book while the world gets to grips…
ByIt’s Not All About Money: Memoirs of a Private Banker
‘The little gnomes of Zurich’ was a phrase famously used by prime minister Harold Wilson in 1964 to describe Swiss…
ByGucci Wars: How I Survived Murder and Intrigue at the Heart of the World’s Biggest Fashion House
You’ll be expecting Tom Ford, of course. But there isn’t a word about him here. How could you publish a…
ByThe Morality of Money
Is there such a thing as spending money in a moral way, wonders William Cash, as the Archbishop of Canterbury…
ByDas Ist Cool
Funky clubs, groovy galleries, sexy damen and hunky herren… Ich wanna be a Berliner, says Oscar Humphries As a child…
ByStuck in the Middle with You
We’re living through topsy-turvy times, and one of the things we’ve lost in the confusion is our parents’ sense of…
ByAny Colour As Long As It’s Green
Jonathan Bell on the eco-friendly and increasingly good-looking future of motoring — think Bugatti, not buggy It was the moment…
ByFrom the Editor
This edition of Spear’s Wealth Management Survey is our 10th birthday issue. When I founded the magazine at our old…
ByPrententious, Moi?
Let’s face it, we’re all fakers, at least some of the time. So go easy on the poseurs and the…
ByThe double standards of justice
The reason Black should be commuted is that – living as he was in a $35 million Palm Beach mansion,…
ByHard Times
Because times are tough, we have forgone any swanky fancy clubs this issue and have instead written up the Academy…
ByWhoa, Nellie!
The 612 Scaglietti is a fine addition to Ferrari’s stable of classic, classy thoroughbreds. William Cash takes the frisky new…
ByPumping Iron
Almost the first thing that President-elect Obama did after winning his landslide victory was to pick up his black sports…
ByGrow, Grow, Grow Your Boat
Sinking a fortune into something sinkable has never been more expensive – or more popular. Clive Aslet steps aboard one…
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