Travel
Come fly with me
I hadn’t actually thought of it, bizarrely, making me the only person on earth whose brain doesn’t instantly associate ‘September 11th’ with ‘planes crashing'.
WBull: World's most expensive hotel doubles rate
Amid the recession, rock stars, diplomats and other celebrities find solace from the doom and gloom by spending their time in sanctuary provided by the world’s most luxurious, and expensive, hotels.
Glen of Dreams
Wendy Coumantaros exeriences the style and relaxation of the south coast's Chewton Glen, with its award-winning restaurant and spa
A New Hugh
Hugh Warrender rediscovers his cheekbones and kisses his love handles goodbye at the spartan Ashram in California
Palazzo Envy
Fancy owning spectacular property in the Italian countryside? There have never been so many desirable options. Josh Spero begins our special in Castello di Reschio, Umbria
Palazzo Envy II
William Cash buries his snobbery and appreciates the unexpected benefits of shared ownership at the historic Castello di Casole, near Siena
Palazzo Envy III
Wendy Coumantaros revels in Tuscan history, refinement and luxury at Castiglion del Bosco, and discovers endless ways to delight her tastebuds
Fractions of Palaces
Susan Kime on how the equity-based shared residence industry - or HNW timeshares - are proving resilient in the recession
Constantinopulent
Istanbul is the 'it' city destination, Europe’s Capital of Culture 2010. Margaret Kemp presents her guide to what's chic in the age-old capital of empires.
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