General

Cynical, Moi?

Is our brand of democracy worth fighting for? Can married women enjoy sex with their husbands? And does my dog provide more energy than a government-funded wind farm, asks Alessandro Tomé

Bob Psychology

A refutation of time and morality, a theatre of self-reinvention — or just a place to get squiffy, gurn like a maniac and behave inappropriately? Nick Foulkes on the irresistible appeal of the nightclub

A Total No-Brainer

Andrei Navrozov quickly loses his mind — in the best possible way, of course — at Rocco Forte’s luxurious Verdura Resort in Sicily

Friends, Romans, Shropshiremen...

When is a house a home? When you have Elizabethan actors declaiming on the lawn, obviously.

HNWs Need to be Nudged into Philanthropy

HNWs need to be nudged into greater philanthropy by banks, companies and governments, a report from New Philanthropy Capital concludes

We're All Friends Here

Sure, Facebook is huge — a global phenomenon. But will it be the next Microsoft? Will its great wall be visible from outer space? Daisy Prince posts a status update

Sky Sports

Do you feel the need, the need for speed? Then treat yourself to a day of death-defying aeronautical antics with the fearless throttle-jockeys of The Blades, says Freddy Barker 

Special Edition

Ian Schrager single-handedly created the boutique hotel, so what’s he doing jumping into bed with mass-market Marriott? John Arlidge checks out the anti-chain chain

The Giver and the Gift

Zain Alatas talks to philanthropist Dame Vivien Duffield about the Clore Leadership Programme, while Kathleen Soriano explains how it has helped her

Laugh, Actually

What do sucker-fish, romantic comedies and nouveaux riches ski resorts have in common? Not a lot, though they all make me giggle, says Alessandro Tomé

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 Spear's Salon

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