Travel
All the Cotswolds a Stage
A moment or two of quiet reflection on the banks of the Coln provides a calm yet compelling reminder of the gorgeousness of the Cotswolds, says Clive Aslet
Pussies Galore
Alessandro Tome on plagues of black cats, unprepossessing politicians and other unseemly augurs of ill fortune
You've Got to Love Your Hideaways
Once viewed with a raised eybrow if not with downright suspicion, fractional ownership now offers possibilities that HNWs are embracing, says William Cash
Remote Control
Outside China’s shiny, noisy cities, there are age-old villages, serene mountaintops and as much Tai Chi as you can handle. Bliss, says Harry Dean
Gored Senseless
The only thing more grotesque, ridiculous and downright unsporting than bullfighting itself would be banning it altogether, says Andrei Navrozov
Costa del Cool
There is still something ineffably wonderful and for ever 1969 about Marbella, says Nick Foulkes
Wet 'n' Wild
Like your holidays as gruelling and action-packed as a boxed set of Ray Mears’ Extreme Survival? Then meet the hard men of Momentum Adventure, says Penelope Bennett
Just So Stories
It might be a shower with a view or a midnight snack of steamed vegetables — the best hoteliers totally get the little things, says John Arlidge
Absent Friends
Art Basel buzzed as the world’s cultural elite gathered to browse and buy — but one nation appeared to have misplaced its invitation, says William Cash
Lovely Jumby!
No longer happy to imitate their ‘betters’, the new wealthy are striking out for the exclusive villas of Jumby Bay, Antigua, 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