General
Your kids are Ninjas
That's 'No Income, No Jobs, No Assets' - and the offspring of HNWs are not happy about it, says Zakari Smith
The Giver and the Gift
In this new column, Zain Alatas talks to a philanthropist and the recipient of their philanthropy. First, Dame Stephanie Shirley and Professor William Dutton
Crash Test Drama
William Cash talks to William Nicholson, the co-writer of Gladiator, whose new play Crash shines a harsh light on art, ethics and bankers’ greed
Keeping Up Appearances
You never miss your Bolly till your well is dry. But don’t panic — it’s still possible to entertain in style during a recession, says Anne McElvoy
2010: A Luxe Odyssey
After spending the year eating, drinking and sleeping with the best the world of luxury has to offer, John Arlidge rounds up the good, the bad and the utterly marvellous
Stonking at the Savoy
You can almost guarantee that the worst thing about any five-star hotel you stay in will be its retail opportunities
Hang On!
Why bother hanging art on your walls when your walls can be the art? Stephen Hill gives paintings a pasting
Cartier Racing Awards
The exclusive annual dinner for the good, great, rich and beautiful of international racing society celebrated 20 years of Cartier’s creation of the “Oscars” of the racing world
Fall in the Mind
Was it the gorgeous autumn weather or the excitement of Fashion Week that brought on my moment of wedding-crashing madness, asks Daisy Prince
Books
Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
Michael Lewis
Kyle Bass, a Texas-based hedge-fund manager who did well out of shorting the sub-prime property market before the 2008 financial crisis, used to play the international strategy board game Risk as a kid, which led him to find out everything about a tiny country called Iceland, which was a key strategic location in the game
The Gentry: Stories of the English
Adam Nicolson
How delicious the notion of the gentry is. How beautifully it shades into every kind of 19th-century fraudulence, into Eric Hobsbawm’s Invention of Tradition. How easily it locks on to the much later and altogether more middle-class idea of the gentleman
Zahawi and Hancock on 'Masters of Nothing'
Anne McElvoy
The Wide Blue Yonder
A new breed of Tory MPs emerged from the 2010 general election, and already some are making their mark. Anne McElvoy looks at two of Cameron’s cabal
HNW Events
Spear's/Speechly Bircham Seminar: How to be a philanthropist in the 21st century
21 February 2012
Spear's Young Turk Awards 2012
01 April 2012
Spear's Design for Living Awards 2012
01 May 2012
Spear's Wealth Insight Forum 2012
19 September 2012
The Diary
Mark Hix
04 Jan 2012
Amanda Palmer
22 Nov 2011
Patrick Perrin
11 Oct 2011
Nicky Haslam
05 Aug 2011
Stephen Webster
06 Jul 2011