Ticket, Please
Dickens, Tennyson and Eliot loved it; so does Tom Stoppard. Josh Spero on why the London Library is, quite literally,…
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The property market is resolutely not as dismal as the daily newspapers would have everyone believe. The property market is…
ByRichard Kay
The ’season’ is upon us, that extraordinary six weeks in which sport, opera and horticulture collide with social climbing, arcane…
ByMoscow Moolah
Spear’s is launching in Russia. Our UHNW comrades are renowned for swift earning and extravagant spending, and they’re not grinding…
ByClear and Present Danger
Cold War style security measures are no match for the splintered cells characteristic of terrorist networks post-9/11. High time for…
ByWalking On Golden Eggshells
Taxing non-doms isn’t just a terrible idea, but it’s also one that could kill the proverbial goose. Very bad for…
ByPut It Another Way
A put option is generally defined as a contract that gives its owner the right, but not the obligation, to…
ByRags To Riches
Glossy client magazines offer private banks a newly glamorous means of speaking to the super-affluent. But is it possible to…
ByDying Of Consumption
Do we really know what we want? Or do we want what we’re told we want by S&M fantasy-mongers, asks.…
ByNo Stairway
London’s super-rich want their flats flat. None of that multi-storey malarkey, just oodles of sideways space and a spiffing view,…
ByPastures Old
Like flares and cloche hats, all the Isle of Wight had to do was sit around and wait to become…
ByBang Out Of Order
Right now the global financial system is dangerously unbalanced – but help appears to be on the way, says Guy…
ByFor Your Advice Only
As the number of ultra-high-net-worth families grows globally by more than 10 per cent each year, so too does the…
ByNew York Special
New York, New York, it’s a hell of a town. Or is it just hell? Spear’s investigates in its New…
ByBig Ben Strikes, Big Apple Crumbles
New York ain’t what it used to be, even for billionaires. Elizabeth Wolff discovers why London is the preferred hostess…
ByThe Great Outdoors
King Pacific Lodge, Princess Royal Island, Canada When I was thirteen years old, I stood covered in mud, the wind…
ByWhere It’s At
The insider’s guide to what’s red-hot and ice-cool in New York and London, by Natasha Faruque. The insider’s guide to…
ByVicky Ward
New York at the start of a year is a place of hope. New York at the start of a…
ByTheory Of Wellativity
You provide the perspiration, Ki Performance provides the inspiration. It’s scientific gym genius, says Penelope Bennett. You provide the perspiration,…
ByHope the Bugs Don’t Bite
Is phone tapping a pointless invasion of privacy or an essential part of intelligence-gathering in the post-9/11 world, asks Nigel…
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