Singapore's art scene aims for greatness, but is it too conservative to triumph?
26 years after Singapore set out a plan to make itself a ‘gracious’ cultural capital, it has a glitzy art…
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Clegg's 'kingmakers' will do more harm than good for more than a million
The Lib Dems want to strike at a ‘series of distortions, loopholes and excess reliefs’ – landing SMEs, investors and…
ByStephen Hill handicaps the general election's runners and riders
Who knows who will win the Grand National Election? It looks more like a circus at this point, says Stephen…
ByNo wonder politicians hedge when this is what happens when they're honest
With Cameron’s ad hoc remarks on a final term, 2015’s election candidates could take a few tips from those who…
ByVladimir Putin's Eurasian empire threatens the primacy of the EU – and Britain must act
The UK must define its place in Moscow’s new world order – or follow blinkered Brussels, says Stephen Hill Putin’s…
ByBoris Nemtsov's killing pushes Russia one step further towards fascism
Stephen Hill sees Hitler’s techniques in Putin’s actions The Moscow drive-by assassination of charismatic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov at 11.00pm…
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Hakluyt's Christopher James has seen the alphabet of Britain's security services
With a career spent in the SAS, MI6 and the FCO, before founding business intelligence firm Hakluyt, Christopher James sure…
ByPutin's landgrab playbook looks increasingly like the Nazis'
Stephen Hill says Vladimir Putin is playing geopolitics like Hitler did – and we all need to beware Putin’s signature…
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The UK still offers a warm welcome (for the wealthy)
Amid the pre-election clamour to restrict immigration, are we in danger of turning away the foreign HNWs the economy needs?…
ByTsipras' democractic victory offends the Brussels bureaucracy
Stephen Hill says that the EU needs to heed the red tide rising across Europe Alexis Tsipras’s success in the…
ByEurope's QE is too little too late
It would have been cheaper to let the banks go bust than let the global economy float on a glut…
ByIt's fireworks in Frankfurt over the eurozone crisis
Frankfurt hasn’t seen such drama since Gustavus Adolphus (left) marched on it. But ECB head Mario Draghi (right) is preparing…
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Another violet cream, Your Majesty?
The Canadian Weston retail dynasty is now at the heart of the British establishment, not least because scion Galvin Weston…
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Hollande and Merkel’s foot-in-mouthism helps nobody
I don’t know if there is such a word as ‘dontopedagogical’ in the OED, but if there isn’t one, then…
ByHollande and Merkel's foot-in-mouthism helps nobody
Stephen Hill says Britain’s unexpected bill will only move us closer to the exit. Thanks, Francois! I don’t know if…
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Despite TechCrunch vote of confidence, UK getting less hospitable to tech entrepreneurs
The success of the UK’s tech sector was marked this week by TechCrunch’s Disrupt European conference which relocated from Berlin…
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How the luxury discount retailing of Bicester Village is coming to China
Since my beat is meant to be all about luxury, it may be something of a surprise that this time…
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Read one of Oscar de la Renta’s final interviews
In the interview, one of his last ones, Oscar de la Renta talked about how he had to secretly become…
ByRead one of Oscar de la Renta's final interviews
Earlier this year Spear’s published Alain Elkann’s interview with the fashion designer, who died today In the interview, one of…
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Devo-max for the English will sink Ed Miliband
The referendum result last Thursday was earth-shattering. Hundreds of years of history were consigned to a Scottish dustbin. Yes, the…
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