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Hollande Continues to Wobble, and that Suits Us Just Fine
Stephen Hill doesn’t mind if the Flanby lives up to his name. The Eurozone will crash and burn just fine…
ByAndrew Kojima’s Guest Recipe: Salmon Sashimi and Cucumber Salad
This salmon dish would be a perfect accompaniment to a gin and tonic Twelve years ago, I started professional life…
ByTony Conigliaro’s Guest Recipe: Mallow Milkshake
Milkshakes are one of mixologist Tony Conigliaro’s guilty pleasures. Here he shares one of his favourite recipes Milkshakes are one…
ByTony Conigliaro: The 5 Best Bars for a Summer G&T
We may not have had much sunny weather, but that shouldn’t prevent anyone enjoying a good gin and tonic at…
ByBarry Tucker’s Get Out of Jail Card
Nick/Tuck They stay in the shadows and don’t get name-checked at society soirées, but they can be worth their weight…
ByThe Tyranny of the School Reunion and the Fast Diet
A high-school reunion isn’t just about catching up with old friends, says Daisy Prince it also means starving oneself in…
ByHow to win friends and… Oh, it's bloody obvious!
It occurred to me that you can never overstate the perfectly apparent and that has been the key to Carnegie’s…
ByA little nudging goes a long way
A pilot study showed that three times more money goes to charity in people’s wills when the lawyer writing the…
BySTEP: More money goes to charity if will-writers ask about it
A government-sponsored trial has shown that the proportion of testators who leave a gift to charity doubles from 5 to…
ByClaude Bosi serves up a feast to the Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation jury
I can say with certainty that they will have thoroughly enjoyed their lunch, as earlier this month I was invited…
ByReview: L’Anima, Liverpool Street
With the midday sunlight filtering through their wall-to-ceiling windows and a glass of crisp, fresh prosecco in hand, I could…
ByRussell Norman: What Has Happened to London’s Markets?
Simply put, London is rubbish at markets. Forget the likes of Borough Market, Russell Norman can think of only one…
ByRussell Norman: My (Alternative) Favourite Italian Restaurants
The man behind Polpo, Mishkin’s and Spuntino presents his alternative list of his favourite Italian restaurants the ones you won’t…
ByIntroducing Spear’s Food Friday Guest Editor, Russell Norman
Russell Norman, the founder of London restaurants Polpo, Spuntino and Mishkin’s, is today’s guest editor Russell Norman is a restaurateur.…
ByLondon’s Best Delicatessens
Spear’s investigated some of London’s loveliest Italian delis for the perfect picnic spread I’m a huge fan of a deli.…
ByFT: EU may introduce country-by-country reporting as soon as summer
At a summit on Wednesday, EU leaders ditched longstanding reservations about more intrusive reporting rules and broadly backed a shake-up…
ByHauser & Wirth take on Paul Schimmel for Los Angeles gallery
Over the course of the past three decades, Paul Schimmel has become known as one of the most influential curators…
BySTEP: Switzerland introducing law to confiscate dictators’ funds
The proposed law’s principal targets are secret bank deposits operated by ‘foreign dictators and potentates,’ says the Swiss Federal Council…
ByStratford meets SW3 at the Chelsea Flower Show
West and East London don’t mix, like chi-chi olive oil and Red Stripe drunk out of the can I know…
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