General

Let There Be Zeit

The Zeitwerk by A Lange & Söhne was a masterstroke of fancy watchmaking. The new version is even better — it glows in the dark, says James Gurney

Highly Strung

Vanessa Neumann meets Philippe Petit — twinkle-toed titan of the tightrope, unreconstructed rebel and barn-building DIY superstar

Pop up/roll over

Two unusual events last week made me realise that Londoners are very lucky.

It's Highclere: Buy a Nose!

Zain Alatas discovers that buying a share in a horse needn’t be like burning £50 notes — in fact, it’s worth putting a bet on a Highclere syndicate 

Setting Hay on Fire

Spear’s was a media partner for HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s first philosophy and music festival. Bianca Brigitte Bonomi reports back from some incendiary intellectual clashes

Dottore Death

Wanna get someone whacked in Sicily? Easy. Just send them to a local GP, says Andrei Navrozov 

Africa Special

From funds to fun to philanthropy, Spear's has Africa covered in our Africa Special

The Kindest Cut

Penelope Bennett meets the Swiss plastic surgeon who is transforming the face of medicine in Ivory Coast at the hospital he built 

Sunshine and Somerset

You sense that Lady Cosima's black book - compiled with skill and every social grace over the years - is one of Concierge London's chief attractions

Walpole Brands of Tomorrow 2010 announced

Walpole, the trade body that represents the British luxury industry, whose members include; Dunhill, Asprey, Burberry, Fortnum & Mason, Goodwood, Harrods and Jimmy Choo today announces the seven new brands that could become tomorrow’s global luxury leaders.

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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

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