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…
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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…
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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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Scotland’s No is good for Britain’s banks
The Union may have been saved but David Cameron is waking up to a bad political headache this grey and…
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William Cash reports from Edinburgh on political and financial reaction to the Scottish independence referendum The Union may have been…
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Family, history, economy and landscape all vote No to independence
The last time I got up at 5.30am to walk the bleak, grey stone streets of a country on the…
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NHS head urges tax breaks for companies tackling obesity
The head of the NHS has announced proposals to halt ‘the slow-motion car crash’ of obesity – including potential tax…
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Everything Greece’s digital entrepreneurs touch turns to gold
So there I was last year, having dinner at the Grande Bretagne, the most prestigious hotel in Athens. Alexandra Vovolini,…
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How to manage a successful family business succession
What is going on in the crowded heads of the queens and kings around the world? In the past eighteen…
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Clusterbucks – how to make money from the South East’s science and technology clusters
It’s in Cambridge, but not of Cambridge. Or is it of Cambridge but not in Cambridge? The Hauser Forum, ‘a…
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Entrepreneur? You’re twice as likely to move abroad, according to Barclays
Author: Aoife Moriarty Released today, the eighteenth volume of Barclays Wealth Insights examines the global landscape of wealth as it…
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David Yarrow’s impassioned essay on Alex Salmond, independence, football and his family’s Scottish shipbuilding history
So it is going down to the wire: Scotland is very close to making an extraordinarily brave decision. There will…
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If Kurdistan can survive ISIS, it has a rich future with oil
Although the news is of the Kurdish Peshmerga valiantly fighting against the Islamic State and trying to stem the tide…
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Mario Draghi looking less super as euro-deflation looms
The one-size-fits-all euro isn’t working – just ask Mario Draghi at the ECB. The Germans and their Bundesbank are screaming…
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The man behind the people who dust the Dorchester and clean the Connaught
I’d like to say this is the first time an interviewee has taken me into the gents, but it’s not.…
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