Spear's Letters
Spear’s readers respond to the proposed national planning reforms and Spear’s Save Britain’s Historic Landscape Campaign From Chris Brittain, Association…
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Western Leaders Still Fighting the Last Economic War
Future Tense Politicians and bankers are inefficiently using old tools with old attitudes, when what they need is to face…
ByThe Localism Bill's Dangerous Disregard for Local Feeling
Reform the Reforms Britain’s heritage needs to be protected, not harmed for quick bucks. The draft Localism Bill and National…
ByNous of Fraser
She rebuilt Citi on the rock and roll of the credit crunch and now leads its private bank. Jane Fraser…
By#occupylsx: Spear's meets the St Paul's Protesters
They have set up camp by the steps of St Paul’s to protest about, well, everything from capitalism to cuts.…
ByWhere Spear's Leads
It is gratifying to see that where Spear’s leads, others follow. This time, we are not thinking of our economic…
ByHopes and Fears for Libya's Future
Spear’s staff writer Sophie McBain spent nearly three years in Tripoli and here she writes about what she thinks Libya’s…
ByRemains of the Hay
Literary festivals and creative writing courses are killing serious novels, says William Cash. And Kazuo Ishiguro agrees… Literary festivals and…
ByGive In
We make no apologies for once again returning to the theme of philanthropy in these pages: giving how, when, why,…
ByEuro Groan
So the Eurozone has had to bow to the inevitable: Greece is insolvent, is unable to pay its debts and…
BySave our Scenery!
The village of Winwick Warren in Northamptonshire is little unchanged since the 15th century, when the manor of Winwick was…
ByFair Shares?
A few years ago, no-one paid much attention to rising inequality. But now we are living with ever-faltering economic recovery,…
ByCharge Card
How strange that entrepreneurs, a pool of society made rich by innovative business decisions, have been so slow to force…
ByBlood in the Water
Sitting in our island with its own currency, it is easy for the British to become complacent and fail to…
ByFrom William Cash
A Bedouin tent might be an odd place for a Spear’s event, but when William Cash took to the podium…
ByDigital Revolution
Looking at our panorama of the Middle East and North Africa in this issue, it may appear that you are…
ByBegging Bowl
The word on everyone’s lips these days is ’philanthropy’: as fast as people used to want to make money, so…
BySpin Cycle
The only good news to emerge in Q1 2011 is that in March the US economy added a pretty anaemic…
ByThat's My Bag, Baby
Is there any greater honour, any finer form of flattery than having a posh, practical and well-designed bag named after…
ByThe Merry-Go-Round
The global economy continues through 2011 with the widespread belief that the worst of Global Crunch has passed and that…
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