As a globe-trotter, I've seen climate change with my own eyes
I readily confess I’m not a scientist and I used to sit carefully behind the most vocal disbelievers but, having…
ByI readily confess I’m not a scientist and I used to sit carefully behind the most vocal disbelievers but, having…
ByI have met plenty of very wealthy people who try as they might, simply don’t posses class. Indeed I have…
ByTax avoidance is not illegal provided that no dishonesty is involved in the implementation of the scheme There is an…
ByFarage managed single-handedly to sway the vote in their favour on what appeared to be some rather shaky facts I’ve…
ByA most dangerous precedent that opens the flood gates to a highly questionable, immoral solution to any future government bail-out…
ByReaders of Spear’s may recall a cover from 2011 by Jerwood Prize-winner Adam Dant which alluded to the Arab Spring…
ByEveryone is talking about the ’new reality’ in which running water and electricity are no longer certainties. The post-Sandy mess…
ByPublishing the Lagarde List may backfire, embarrassing honest taxpayers and provoking a hasty response from the Greek government, says Ronnie…
ByQuantitative (Dis)easing While the eurozone remains at the back of investors’ minds, governments and central banks from the UK to…
ByThe penultimate instalment of our lexicographical endeavour, a dictionary for the super-wealthy The penultimate instalment of our lexicographical endeavour, a…
ByThe superhuman has been in danger of becoming tediously quotidian: every day someone else is bungee-jumping off a rickety Mexican…
ByThe global economy has just managed to get through bucket-and-spade time without being washed out to sea, but we have…
ByWhen Anne-Marie Slaughter, former director of policy planning at the State Department, penned an article for The Atlantic saying that…
ByDavid Cameron was sneered at by the French media when he said he would ’roll out the red carpet’ for…
ByAt the Liberal Democrat conference today, Nick Clegg has tackled a political issue largely unspeakable because of the risk of…
ByPoor Show The wealthy barely ever see the other 99 per cent, says Edward Amory in his new column on…
ByMade in Africa Politically exposed persons are found in volatile global situations. Our new columnist, lawyer and activist Robert Amsterdam,…
ByA controversial thing to say in an issue with our Olympic Special, but this summer I’ll be ignoring the running,…
ByOlympics Fever has not passed Spear’s by: we’re practising our javelin hurls and reverse two-and-a-half somersaults, tuck, with as much…
ByYou see a lot of strange and surprising things when walking around London but how often is one of them…
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