Quis ducet ipsos duces?
As Juvenal never said, who will lead the leaders? In this case, the leading hotels of the world – or…
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Suing for Success
If wealth managers and investment bankers could be sued simply for losing money, their lawyers’ phones would currently be ringing…
ByThe Shame of Shopping
The times, as even the dullest Birkin-wielder slouching down Sloane Street will surely have noticed, are recessionary, so when buying…
ByAndrew Roberts
An invitation arrives for the launch of Alain de Botton’s new book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, which will…
ByBox by Box
In the last Hedgehog, we brought you the news that set menus are the new à la carte, and that…
ByMuscovite Munching
As celebrated by the new Russian edition of Spear’s WMS, Moscow is a home from home for high net worths,…
ByIce, Ice, Baby
What’s cool is hot and what cold is even hotter, according to the press release which just landed in Hedgehog’s…
ByFacing up to a P45
Many of London’s lawyers and financiers are now working under the threat of redundancy. Josh Spero looks at the rights…
ByYour Inflexible Friend
For too long, the strong pound has merely been a metaphor (and now not even that). For too long, the…
ByVictoria Aitken
GSTAAD DIARY Right off the train I went to the Palace Hotel to meet Ivan Lindsay, my holiday host. I…
ByDivide and Conquer
If choice is the modern mantra, most wealth managers do not seem to be intoning it. If choice is the…
ByHong Kong diary
An ex-pat living in Hong Kong told me last night that they knew what Superman must have felt after leaving…
ByGym'll Fix It
There aren’t many beneficiaries of the credit crunch but the new breed of exclusive high-end super-gyms are currently enjoying a…
ByReady, Set…
Eating, shooting and everything but leaving. READY, SET…If lunch is the new dinner, the set menu is the new à…
ByExclusive: Conrad Black's Jail Diary
“I write to you from a US federal prison. It is far from a country club or even a regimental…
ByPresent Carefully
The property market is resolutely not as dismal as the daily newspapers would have everyone believe. The property market is…
ByRichard Kay
The ’season’ is upon us, that extraordinary six weeks in which sport, opera and horticulture collide with social climbing, arcane…
ByMoscow Moolah
Spear’s is launching in Russia. Our UHNW comrades are renowned for swift earning and extravagant spending, and they’re not grinding…
ByEssential Date
On a grand mission to unlock the secrets of financial prosperity and live the ’high-life’, London is fervently zoning in…
ByAdvance and Retreat
The world of private equity appears to be shrinking somewhat. The world of private equity appears to be shrinking somewhat.…
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