Before Assange: Famous Cases of People Seeking Asylum in Embassies
Assange is not the only high-profile case of individuals seeking shelter in embassies around the world, and we’ve wracked our…
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An End to Free Banking? Did it Ever Exist Anyway?
Ruminating on the free banking debate earlier this morning, it occurred to me that this probably isn’t the best time…
ByWhy Americans Expatriate And Is It Worth It?
Red, White and Boo It’s legal for US citizens to renounce their nationality though the government can’t imagine why any…
ByExclusive: Andrew Rodger Leaves Stonehage for Cunningham Loewenstein
In the biggest family office move since Guy Paterson left Unigestion for Stanhope, Andrew Rodger, head of the Stonehage Family…
ByWhat Should UK Family Offices Be Learning From The US?
In the Family Way While the UK’s family offices stick to investment management, across the Atlantic the entrepreneurial spirit is…
ByPrime London Residential Market Remains Resilient in the Face of Recession
AT A TIME when most economies around the world are either slowing down or in recession, one segment of the…
ByWIR, BitCoins, Brixton Pounds: Does Funny Money Make Sense?
Coining It Creating your own currency used to be the stuff of children or dictators, but in times of economic…
ByProm 49: The Yeoman of the Guard
In this year of Jubilee celebrations and glorious Olympic success, what better choice of operetta than The Yeoman of the…
ByProm 48: Weber, Mahler and Tchaikovsky
Melinda Hughes is mesmerised by conductor Vladamir Jurowski at Prom 48. I chose to go to this prom to hear…
ByArticle of the Week Preview: Ferdinand Mount on Inequality
The Thatcherite commentator and former head of Downing Street’s Home Policy Unit has taken a turn to the left with…
BySpear's Goes Wingwalking
’More people have climbed Everest than wingwalked,’ is not the bon mot you want to hear when you’re strapped to…
ByThe Best of Spear’s Last Week
In case you missed them, we’ve collected the 5 most viewed articles and the best blogs from Spear’s last week.…
ByWhy You Should Avoid Tax Avoidance
Tax Avoidance? Avoid It Martyn Gowar says tax avoidance ain’t what it used to be — a noble pursuit for…
BySpear’s Has the First Grouse of the Season
Mark Nayler bags himself a brace of grouse at the Lyttelton restaurant at the Stafford Hotel straight after the Glorious…
ByTop Countryside Pubs to Spend the Bank Holiday At
Next weekend is enlarged by a bank holiday, ie time to go to the country, says Emiy Rookwood. To help…
ByTop Five Songs for Julian Assange
With no implication as to his guilt or innocence, here are some songs we think Julian Assange might like to…
ByAusterity Has Been Discredited As the Solution to the Eurozone Crisis
In the context of present-day Europe, can austerity measures increase growth via a negative fiscal multiplier? No — and I’ll…
ByWhy the Olympics Won’t Raise Property Prices
False Start If you build it, they will come — and then they will go. Ross Clark on the peculiar…
ByThreatening Julian Assange and the Ecuadorian Embassy Further Was Foolish
When your hare is cornered and your rifle sights are trained, why tell it that you have a nuclear weapon…
ByNicholas McCarthy, the First One-Handed Pianist to Graduate from the Royal College of Music
Mark Nayler is inspired by Nicholas McCarthy, the first one-handed pianist to graduate from London’s Royal College of Music. Despite…
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