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…
BySchadenfraud
In the context of the US government bailing out Wall Street and the election of Barack Obama as president, a…
ByMaking Off
As 2008 drew to its close, two men who had never met each other and of whom most of us…
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…
ByDon't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans
Peer Steinbruck may be glorying in British troubles now, but we ought not to respond in kind – just think…
ByClear Off! We Want Our Houses Back
The upstart owners of London’s best properties are being driven away by the recession. About time, says Anthony Rufus-Isaacs The…
ByThe Morality of Money
Is there such a thing as spending money in a moral way, wonders William Cash, as the Archbishop of Canterbury…
ByOwe Dear
Turns out most of London’s super-prime property owners are mortgaged to the hilt and the bailiffs are starting to lick…
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…
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…
ByHere's Looking at You
Intrusive new measures for investigating tax evasion may be effective, but they offer few protections for the innocent, says Caroline…
ByThe double standards of justice
The reason Black should be commuted is that – living as he was in a $35 million Palm Beach mansion,…
ByPumping Iron
Almost the first thing that President-elect Obama did after winning his landslide victory was to pick up his black sports…
BySpear's Crunches Credit
From our prescient leaders to our warnings to the central bankers of a year ago, Spear’s has been consistently ahead…
ByTo Go Or Not To Go
A simple invitation can unleash a Shakespearean drama of chronic indecision, says Alessandro Tom’. A simple invitation can unleash a…
ByFigure Skating
The scourge of the earning classes, Polly Toynbee, is back with her latest full-frontal assault on wealth-creators and wealth-receivers. The…
ByLet's Do Crunch
Until now the credit crunch has been confined to the City and Wall Street banks who were selling each other…
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