Travel
Flight Mischief
If you’re going to pay a flying visit to the hotspots of East Africa, then by golly do it in a helicopter. Chop-chop, says Caroline Phillips
Grosvenor House Hotel
On Park Lane sit a row of monolithic hotels, imposing and august. They do not all try to project a welcoming image – some are austere for appearance, others helplessly so – but the Grosvenor House Hotel seems not to believe in this. Here, cheer is de rigueur, in style, in suites, in staff.
The New New York: Part Three
Come triumph or catastrophe, New York never stops evolving, which is why Spear's dispatched Caroline Phillips to discover what's in, what's out and what's shaking it all about in the New New York. Part Three: Being there
The New New York: Part Two
Come triumph or catastrophe, New York never stops evolving, which is why Spear's dispatched Caroline Phillips to discover what's in, out and shaking it all about in the New New York. Part Two: Eating and drinking
A Preferred Partner
Josh Spero catches John Ueberroth, who has brought together hotels from across the world under his Preferred Hotel Group, in between flights
The New New York: Part One
Come triumph or catastrophe, New York never stops evolving, which is why Spear's dispatched Caroline Phillips to discover what's in, out and shaking it all about in the New New York. Part One: Getting there, staying there, getting about
Frescoes-A-Go-Go
The Four Seasons Florence is a masterpiece of thoughtful, painstaking restoration, worthy of its magnificent surroundings, says Steve King
Oooh-ruguay!
Those who can not only find South America’s best-kept secret on a map but also get down there are in for an extremely pleasant surprise, says Josh Spero
The Patient English
From cabbies who wait to see you home safely to partygoers who revel through the night, London has the edge on New York in so many ways, says Daisy Prince
Bull's Eye!
Bovey Castle is just the spot for twanging a bow, swinging a club and generally relaxing in high country-house style, says Penelope Bennett
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