Vatican bank closes foreign branches as scandal hits close to home
The Vatican is set to reform its bank by closing all its accounts in its foreign embassies. After Vatican missions…
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Becoming a lawyer
Author: Peter Matthews With typical City law firms receiving more than 1,000 applications for sometimes just a dozen training contract…
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Why did a Brazilian bury his Bentley?
Most people choose to be buried with just their wedding bands and best clothes, but an eccentric entrepreneur in Brazil…
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Lord Grantham’s predicament: What Downton Abbey can teach us about dying without a will
Downton Abbey devotees and law students alike must have heaved a collective sigh of relief with the return to our…
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During tough times, selling property means you have to talk the talk
‘We do love it but it seems expensive.’ It sure isn’t cheap, I wanted to respond, but instead I said:…
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An easy lesson for philanthropists: How to help disadvantaged kids get into university
Listening to Desert Island Discs this weekend, I was struck by author Zadie Smith’s early life. It was not just…
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Bristol and Plymouth are named UK’s first social enterprise cities
Bristol and Plymouth named UK’s first social enterprise cities It may be the country’s most vibrant city and an international…
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A buy one, get one free offer for tutoring which helps the disadvantaged
While tutoring may be (in some cases) a thousand-pound-an-hour gig, not every tuition firm is in it solely for the…
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Philanthropists expect too much change too quickly, report says
Wealthy philanthropists are ambitious and want to see changes in government policies soon after they have made a donation, but…
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£75 million McCall MacBain donation to Oxford reinforces need for modern philanthropy; plus, biggest gifts to universities
Good news arrived in my inbox this morning (courtesy S McBain): a Canadian billionaire philanthropist and his wife have given…
ByYoung millionaires more self-confident yet more reliant on advisers
Next-gen millionaires are more bullish investors than their older generation counterparts, with almost four in ten buying into high-risk asset…
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Tweeticide: How misusing Twitter can land you in a legal minefield
‘We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of…
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Chinese snap up 40 per cent of prime homes
Non-UK citizens have bought almost eight out of ten luxury new-build homes sold in central London in the past two…
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Special delivery: should HNWs invest in Royal Mail stock flotation?
THERE WAS A particular national industry the late Margaret Thatcher never passed over to the private sector, although she did…
ByHMRC’s fancy infographic to frighten tax avoiders and evaders
HMRC, in their on-going effort to combat tax evasion (illegal) and tax avoidance (legal but no longer acceptable), have produced…
ByHMRC's fancy infographic to frighten tax avoiders and evaders
HMRC, in their on-going effort to combat tax evasion (illegal) and tax avoidance (legal but no longer acceptable), have produced…
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Is social investment a solution to the housing crisis?
Homelessness in the UK made the headlines again last week, with the latest figures worrying reading. Over 56,000 households were…
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MPs hung up on Vodafone tax escape
‘PUBLIC SPENDING WATCHDOGS claim [Vodafone] has a moral duty to hand over some of its gains to taxpayers’ read the…
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Some houses (and clients) you fall in love with
‘You know, darling, she’s got that quality, she just lifts a room when she walks into it.’ I knew what…
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See inside the £5.25m One Hyde Park flat which has been repossessed
When you hear a house has been repossessed, London’s most expensive luxury development isn’t the first place you’d think of.…
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