Expert Comment on Osborne’s Speech at the Tory Party Conference: What Does it Mean for the Wealthy?
We’re collecting expert comment on chancellor George Osborne’s speech at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham today and its implications…
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From William Cash: Bienvenue a Londres!
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ByRomney Can Repair the American Economy
Obama doesn’t do economics, and if he wins a second term he will leave the economy to Ben Bernanke, whose…
ByDaily Mail: Phil Ivey wins £7.3m at Crockfords, but casino won’t pay up
For two nights over the August Bank Holiday at Crockfords, one of the oldest private casinos in the world, the…
ByChocolate Week Masterclass with Melt Chocolates and St James’ Hotel
Melt have partnered up with St James’ Hotel & Club to put on a rather delightful luxury chocolate-making masterclass Next…
ByGuest Recipe of the Week: From ‘Melt: A Book of Chocolate’
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ByOriginal Beans Chocolate Puts Social Investment Alongside Sheer Enjoyment
By encouraging cocoa bean production in several global ‘biodiversity hotspots’, Philipp Kauffman has stimulated local micro-industries, and the chocolate produced…
ByInheritance Tax Needn’t Be The Death Of You
Inheritance tax has an unfortunate way of cropping up at the very worst moment. Nadine Jayes of Blandy & Blandy…
ByWBrief: Greek govt find CD with Swiss bank account details
Authorities in Greece have found a missing data compact disc containing the names of Greek clients with Swiss bank accounts,…
ByDaily Mail: The woman who resigned from her lucrative marriage
Yes, my ‘job’ as wife and mother gave me every material advantage, but it didn’t give me the one thing…
ByHow Mitchell Should Have Handled Plebgate
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ByEurozone, Meant to Unite, Has Divided
EMU has achieved the exact opposite: unemployment is soaring, there are deficits everywhere, austerity cuts driving economies into deflationary default,…
ByBest of Spear’s from last week
Catch up on the most popular articles on Spear’s last week and the best of the blogs Catch up on…
ByWhat John Studzinski Sees in Greta Alfaro's Rat Race
When people talk about city life being a rat race, they probably don’t mean it literally (except for pest control…
ByA Dissenting Review of Aveqia London
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ByFirst Review of Aveqia, London: DIY Cooking and Culinary Team-Building
Run by a group of delightful Swedish chefs, all of whom have worked in Michelin-starred kitchens, the idea is that…
ByGeorge Hammer on what the food industry can learn from beauty business
George Hammer is a man of beauty, having brought Aveda, L’Occitane and The Sanctuary to the UK. He is also…
ByWin tickets to OhLaLa’s Macaron and Martini Masterclass
What could be better, then, than learning how to make both macaroons and martinis at the same time? OhLaLa has…
ByRecord-Smashing Auction Prices Are A Bubble
For a confluence of reasons, we are in the midst of a tsunami of demand for art that is pent…
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