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Allan Shiach

I was politely asked to step down from the Board of a public company a few years ago. My crime? Being an independent member of that Board for too long

Lord Marland

When people ask me how Tickets for Troops is going, I reply it’s going so well it’s like surfing — being transported on the crest of a wave, that is, hoping we will carry on and serenely land on the beach, rather than being dumped in a pile, caught out by some unsuspecting roller.

David Linley

The final printed copy of my new book has just arrived on my desk, and I can’t help but feel like a schoolboy opening my stocking on Christmas Day as I unwrap the cellophane and it creaks open in that delicious way that brand new books do.

Anthony Haden-Guest

Fast forwards. When the history of the American Empire is written one reason given for its decline may well be that they play the Wrong Sort of Football.

Caroline Michel

To celebrate the Spear's Book Awards on June 30th, Caroline Michel, one of the country's top literary agents and CEO of the PFD agency, has written the Spear's Diary for the forthcoming summer issue.

Andrew Roberts

An invitation arrives for the launch of Alain de Botton’s new book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, which will doubtless be great fun. Yet it joins a weirdly bare mantelshelf.

Victoria Aitken

GSTAAD DIARY

Right off the train I went to the Palace Hotel to meet Ivan Lindsay, my holiday host. I wondered, could the chicest ski resort in the world sustain its reputation when the only thing crunchier than its fresh snow is the economy?

Hong Kong diary

An ex-pat living in Hong Kong told me last night that they knew what Superman must have felt after leaving Krypton, coming to Earth and discovering he was all-powerful.

Exclusive: Conrad Black's Jail Diary

"I write to you from a US federal prison. It is far from a country club or even a regimental health spa."

Spear's exclusively has the full-length version of Conrad Black's jail diary, written from his prison in Florida. For his unedited thoughts on law and order (or lack thereof) in the United States, click here.

Richard Kay

The ‘season’ is upon us, that extraordinary six weeks in which sport, opera and horticulture collide with social climbing, arcane dress codes, royalty and snobbery.