The Russians are Coming!
Christopher Silvester meets Irina Shumovitch, who’s helping to open the doors of England’s top public schools to a generation of…
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Wake up and Smell the Writs
In the autumn the Supreme Court transformed divorce law in Britain. Stephen Foster of Stewarts Law assesses the status of…
ByDealing in Futures
Pictet’s Christophe Donay unrolls his map of the current financial landscape and identifies areas of relative safety and others of…
BySomething Oiled, Something New
Claudia Perotti on how the rising cost and declining supply of oil will affect your investment portfolio as well as…
ByLiquidity, Ahoy!
The good ship QE2, as the Fed’s second round of quantitative easing is snappily known, is about to set sail,…
ByTough Love
Caroline Garnham on why charities and not-for-profit organisations need to embrace the hard-nosed efficiency of successful commercial businesses ON 20…
ByDame Stephanie Shirley on her philanthropy at the Oxford Internet Institute
THE GIVER AND THE GIFT In this new column, Zain Alatas talks to a philanthropist and the recipient of their…
ByThe Sunset King
With positions from the government to the Tate, Lord Browne has never been more in demand. He tells Josh Spero…
ByRay Tooth’s Lifetime Achievement Award Speech
Ladies and gentlemen. I have never won an award in my life and therefore I was surprised, and I thought…
ByCrash Test Drama
William Cash talks to William Nicholson, the co-writer of Gladiator, whose new play Crash shines a harsh light on art,…
ByKeeping Up Appearances
You never miss your Bolly till your well is dry. But don’t panic it’s still possible to entertain in style…
ByBrandy and Circuses
‘Brandy and circuses’ is what I told artist Adam Dant when I commissioned him to do the cover of this…
ByNPC: Families fear giving without measures
Not being able to see how their donations are being used is the greatest concern of philanthropic families, says a…
By2010: A Luxe Odyssey
After spending the year eating, drinking and sleeping with the best the world of luxury has to offer, John Arlidge…
ByBDB on encouraging philanthropy
Although the idea of increasing philanthropic giving is an important vision, at the moment there are not enough tax incentives…
ByCrash JP Morgan!
When you bet big, you can lose big… When you bet big, you can lose big… Crash JP Morgan –…
BySotheby’s: Audubon sells for record £7.3m
John James Audubon’s Birds of America, sold at Sotheby’s London for £7,321,250/ US$11,542,683, establishing a new world record for any…
ByOxbridge scandal
The papers declare today the national scandal that is the low admission rates of black students to Oxbridge The papers…
ByDouble whammy
Last week the FSA published their report into the disaster, not for the general public, but for their eyes only…
ByOMG, This is Major
Don’t ignore the abbreviations — the impact of the RDR on HNWs and their IFAs is going to be seismic…
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