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ByHedgehog Issue 22
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ByHedgehog Issue 21
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I can’t believe we are facing the prospect of another Icelandic volcanic dust cloud. The coming week sees me flying…
ByThe Play's the Thing
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ByStanhope and Jewson talk to Spear's about acquisition
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ByGreat Expectations for Angel Investors
Ingenious medical inventions and Great Expectations took centre stage at the second Beer and Partners investment fair of 2011 on…
ByTouch of Evill
The collection was amassed by Evill and left to his Honour Frost, his orphaned ward, whose death has brought this…
ByMidnight Feasts for James Middleton
More at home with finance mags than gossip rags, Spear’s has never had much interest in celebrity eating habits. That…
ByClass War at Hay-on-Wye
Class war is normally an abstract concept. But it nearly became reality at How the Lights Get In, a Spear’s-sponsored…
ByFor City boys and gulls
The annual Gulls’ Eggs City Luncheon brings together 600 of London’s top wealth managers, bankers and lawyers to feast on…
ByNorwegians Would
With all the hullabaloo made over sovereign wealth funds, it’s surprising that one of the largest is one of the…
BySunday Times Rich List 2011
Having seen their wealth soar 30% in 2010 to ’334 billion, still recovering from 2008’s low, Britain’s richest 1000 have…
ByYes to AV! No to AV!
Two of Spear’s writers debate the merits of AV, which the country will vote on in a referendum this Thursday…
ByHedgehog Issue 20
Sharp tailoring, blunt comment. It’s Hedgehog. ALL PRESENT AND INCORRECT It is rare for a website to be both a…
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