General
Royally Screwed
Nick Foulkes on why the 1970s Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, with its mighty metal parts proudly exposed, is still king of the chronos
He Tarzan
Andrei Navrozov on the gruff, grumpy, chest-thumping genius of Gusov, a Russian photographer with no first name who is coming soon to a park bench near you
Other People's Houses
Visits to stately homes used to mean a few public rooms, but as bills rise, owners are offering up private spaces and even their lifestyles. Alex Gushurst-Moore takes a tour
Who Lives Near a Church Like This?
Susannah Glynn wonders why philanthropists have not yet turned their attention to pretty but dilapidated parish churches, jewels of England’s heritage
From Greenbacks to Green Fingers
Garden therapy, anyone? Mark Nayler meets the men who have bloomed in the business world and don’t mind getting their hands dirty away from the office
HNW inflation up by 6%
Figures released today by multi-family-office Stonehage show that prices of luxury goods and services for London-based UHNWs increased by 6 per cent in the year to April 2011
The Kids Aren't All Right
Children all too often bear the worst of their parents’ divorce. Parents need to think less about guilty gifts and more about communicating, says Zak Smith
Design for Living II
Photos of the winners at the Spear's Design for Living Awards 2011, in association with Harrods
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