Oxford Receives £75 Million Gift to Support Low-Income Students
Oxford University has received the largest ever-philanthropic gift for undergraduate study in European history Oxford University has received the largest…
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Guardian: Hans Rausing arrested in connection with Eva Rausing’s death
Hans Kristian Rausing, one of the heirs to to the multibillion pound Tetra Pak packaging dynasty, has been arrested in…
ByMail: £50m divorce dragged out over fears husband may move assets
A wealthy couple locked in a bitter legal row over the wife’s £26million divorce settlement are no better than spoilt,…
ByBarclays' Board Bazooka'd
When King bazooka’d the Barclays boardroom, however, he also knocked out the government’s Vickers tank parked on his regulatory lawn…
ByNext Gen Networking Forums Are Good News For HNWs and Advisors
It’s often said that successful private bankers need white hair. Only then, the argument runs, can they meet HNWs as…
ByFrench Naturalists at the Fleming Collection Are Naturally French
Another good example of an artistic movement rejecting most of the avant-garde of their era is the French Naturalists Art…
ByCold Calling for Tax Schemes May Leave You Engaged… With HMRC
Paul Panayi wonders why anyone would sign up to a tax avoidance scheme after a cold call — just because…
ByOne Million Children in the UK Go Hungry
I’m usually pretty desensitised to news stories, especially when listening to the Today Programme on a morning when I can’t…
ByWealth Briefing: Adair Turner says Libor scandal ‘a huge blow’
The chairman of the UK’s Financial Services Authority yesterday condemned the “huge blow” inflicted on the reputation of the London…
BySotheby’s to offer recently discovered Canaletto drawing
An unsolicited phone call to Sotheby’s Paris has revealed the remarkable existence of a previously unrecorded Canaletto, Campo di San…
ByBob Diamond has gone. What next for whistleblowers?
Barclays blew the whistle on Libor-fixing, hoping for a lighter sentence. This, clearly, has not gone well. You’ll get no…
ByHow Envy Has Shaped Politics and Empires
Sea of Green A visit to the Aeolian Islands, sailing in the shadow of two volcanoes, causes Andrei Navrozov to…
ByBob Diamond Must Go!
With the latest revelation that Barclays fiddled interbank lending rates, it appears that British banks are not only too big…
ByFT: Barclays chair Marcus Agius resigns, citing ‘devastating blow’
Marcus Agius has confirmed that he will step down as chairman of Barclays, and said that the scandal involving price-fixing…
ByBonkers, Bunkers and Bankers
Today, the presidency of the dysfunctional EU has passed to Cyprus. Who? What? You’re kidding? No, you’re bonkers! Today, the…
ByMasterpiece London Majors on Masterpieces, Gagosian Fails to Gag
It seems as if half of London society – by which I mean global society – has traipsed past the…
ByAbseiling down Broadgate Tower? No fear!
I’m on the edge. Beneath me is a 540 foot drop. It’s all a blur, but I can just about…
ByThe Rewards and Risks of Sports Wealth
Golden Goals Sport and the tax authorities have a lot in common: penalties, poor form, complex transfer rules. Freddy Barker…
ByKaiser Partner on the LDF and how Tiny Liechtenstein Thinks Big
Size Isn’t Everything From finance to sports, is there nothing Liechtenstein doesn’t punch above its weight in? Not according to…
ByChuka Umunna Wants to Turn Gangsters into Businessmen: Great Plan, But How?
There was an especially embarrassing moment on BBC news last nighta bit like if your granddad tried to high-five you…
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