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Spear’s Chancellor of the Excessive John Arlidge reports that all is surprisingly dandy at the highest end of the luxury goods market
A Million-Pound Life: £20
How much is a banker's life worth? Not very much, the baying crowds cry. And one banker would agree: he's selling all the accoutrements of a life in the City - country house, car, boat - in a spot-the-ball competition whose tickets are £20.
Spear's Book Awards: Vote Here
Vote here for your novel of the year in the Spear's Book Awards. Your vote counts!
Walpole Position
Classics become classics by dint of endurance, so it is too early to say that any of the 'Brands of Tomorrow', as picked by the FSA of luxury, Walpole, will become classics, but on the basis of their previous picks, you wouldn't bet against them.
Spear's quoted in Telegraph on City infidelity
"Like luxury cars, mistresses require a lot of time and money to be spent on them," says Josh Spero, senior editor of Spear's Wealth Management Survey, "so when it comes to wealthy men cutting back, the other woman is near the top of their list."
Exclusive London luxury hotels offer
Spear's WMS has teamed up with some of London's top luxury hotels to bring offers unique to readers. Find out full details here.
NEW: Hotels Index
With the credit crunch putting that Easter break in St Moritz on hold this year, Spear’s WMS offers the definitive guide to taking a chic holiday at home. We select London’s top 25 hotels, from the uber-trendy to the ultra-grand.
Make Luxe Not War
Sustaining the European luxury-goods market is not merely an economic necessity but also a moral obligation. Go forth and spend, for heaven’s sake — your country needs you, says Nick Foulkes
Top o' the Mornin'
As if everyday life wasn’t hard enough already, some people choose to make matters worse by skipping breakfast. Is that crazy or what, asks Penelope Bennett
A Winter's Tale
Oscar Humphries on the peculiar mixture of gloom and excess, schadenfreude and swagger that has characterised the past few tumultuous months
Books
Speed-reading
Anthony Haden-Guest
Dead End Gene Pool
Christopher Silvester
Gentlemen & Blackguards
Nicholas Foulkes
The Diary
Allan Shiach
04 Aug 2010
Lord Marland
25 Mar 2010
David Linley
17 Dec 2009
Anthony Haden-Guest
14 Sep 2009
Caroline Michel
13 May 2009



