Travel
Out of Africa
Few holidays can be as spectacular as an African safari, but pick the wrong destination and you may be more likely to see herds of 4x4s than elephants. Not so at Kiba Point, a private eight-person camp in Tanzania's Selous game reserve.
Cannes-do!
Only four stars?! That modesty (and the discursive menu) is what makes the Voile d’Or so charming, says William Cash
A Riviera Runs Through It
Oliver Thring on the curious cocktail of grime, glamour, sun and seediness that makes the Côte d’Azur as intoxicating today as it ever was
Dalmatian Hotspots
There’s much more to Dubrovnik than the superyachts and swishy villas clustered along the gorgeous coastline. Eat, drink, explore, says Sophie McBain
Highland Bling
New money and old talent have made Skibo Castle the finest country retreat in Britain, says John Arlidge
Nothing Accedes Like Success
Recent history has not been kind to Croatia, but with EU membership on the horizon, now’s the time to reconsider its merits as a place to do business, says Sophie McBain
Arriverderci, Red Tape!
Good with figuras but not so good with figures? Basta already! A new generation of Italian entrepreneurs is defying the clichés — and the bureaucracy, says Mark Nayler
Vroom With A View
Have classic car, will travel? Jonathan Bell on the joys of rallying across picturesque landscapes in faraway lands
At Ease, Soldier!
You plan your working life like a military operation — and if you’ve got any sense you’ll plan your holidays with the same attention to detail, says Tanya Rose
The Pursuit of Abbey-ness
Clive Cummings took quite a chance when he decided to transform a 900-year-old Burgundy monastery into a luxury hotel, but his prayers have been answered, he tells Freddy Barker
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