Travel
Gstaad Act to Follow
William Cash on the Grand Hotel Park, Dona Bertarelli’s exquisite labour of love, which instantly takes a place at the top of the über-luxe boutique-hotel mountain
Pastoral Polish
Swish new properties such as Coworth Park and Lime Wood have redefined the look and feel of the classic English country-house retreat, says Claire Wrathall
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
Hard Times in Herculaneum
Taking your school-age kids to inspect Roman ruins is edifying, educational and enjoyable. Just be prepared for lots of snickering and rude jokes, says Clive Aslet
Archipelago A-Go-Go!
Penelope Bennett unfurls her sarong, slips into her fanciest flip-flops, fastens a hibiscus behind one ear and samples the swishest of Bali’s new resorts
Life in the Flask Lane
Wowee — a hunt ball in upstate New York that’s a match for its booze-sodden English counterparts. Bottoms up, says Daisy Prince
The Links Effect
Herbert Kohler tells Josh Spero about the bunker-shots and holes-in-one of his life — on and off the golf course
Tel: Dubai's World development sinking, tribunal hears
The islands were intended as the ultimate luxury possession, even for Dubai.
Pack Off!
The world's most expensive package holiday has landed, but it'll be taking off without me.
Ready, Jet-Set, Go!
Jamaica is overcoming the headlines and returning to the glamour of the Fifties. Those were the days, says William Cash
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