General
At the Sharp End: Robert Gaines-Cooper
Entrepreneur and scourge of HMRC Robert Gaines-Cooper faces the Spear’s questionnaire
Dude Looks Like a Lady
What gives the hard-working male executive the edge in these tough times? Plastic surgery, a makeover and a touch of Botox, of course, says Caroline Phillips
Luxe Redux
Diffusion lines, online offerings, fresh creative talent, even good old-fashioned value for money — luxury brands will give anything a go in these tentative post-crunch times, says John Arlidge
Come Fly With Me?
Having taken off in the boom years, private jet firms crash-landed in the bust. Where now for the industry, asks Zain Alatas
Cash Never Sleeps
Wall Street pulled off the difficult trick of making a supposedly evil, vile, greedy Nero of finance a compelling and almost likeable character
Elephantine Kindnesses
There's no shame in enjoying yourself while giving to charity, says Clive Aslet
At the Sharp End: Brent Hoberman
Founder of lastminute.com and entrepreneur Brent Hoberman faces the Spear’s questionnaire
Pitch Fest
When New Yorkers flock to Central Park to play softball, they’re really playing hardball. Still, it’s kinda sweet, says Daisy Prince
Whisk-ye Were Here
You have to go a long way for a fine dram. Clive Aslet packs his hipflask and heads to Scotland
Wet 'n' Wild
Like your holidays as gruelling and action-packed as a boxed set of Ray Mears’ Extreme Survival? Then meet the hard men of Momentum Adventure, says Penelope Bennett
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