General
The Military in the City
Service Industry
More than half a century since National Service ended, the City still retains an ex-military influence. Sophie McBain seeks out the real captains of industry
Next Generation Entrepreneurs
When The Going Gets Toff
Not even the grandest of today’s young entrepreneurs are too posh to push. Just ask those dynamic doyens of the discount-card Alex Nall-Cain and Richard Dinan, says Mark Nayler
The Children of Deposed Royal Families on Life After Revolution
Throne Out
What happens to the children of deposed royal dynasties? Sophie McBain finds out
Hats Off to Laura Cathcart
Vintage glamour is never old hat, says Laura Cathcart, London’s most exciting up and coming milliner. Chloe Barrow talks to her
The Cost of Luxury
Labours of Love
Raw materials have remarkable adventures and pass through many skilled hands on their way to becoming precious items. Sophie McBain assesses the cost of luxury
The Celebrity Baby Nurse
Baby Grand
New mother Daisy Prince on the nanny whose celebrity clients, jet-set lifestyle and seen-it-all savoir faire have left her nursing a strange sense of insecurity
Regent's Park's Superprime Property
Park Life
From the rose garden to the Nash terraces, Regent’s Park remains a high-net-worth haunt, says Rebecca Nayler
Son of Pop Ronnie Cutrone
Factory Outlet
Anthony Haden-Guest talks to Ronnie Cutrone, who took a circuitous route to Neo-Pop fame, from Warhol to Woody Woodpecker
Philippe Starck on the Death of Good Design
Enough Already!
Philippe Starck on why we need less design, not more, and why any design without moral commitment is nothing more than a cynical confidence trick
Linley? Bentley? Absolutely!
Not too many days start off in a Bentley (or end in a Bentley, or indeed have anything to do with a Bentley), so it was a treat this morning to see and sit in the new Bentley Flying Spur with interiors by Linley
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
