Spear's Wealth Management Survey

Armageddon Out of Here

Since the summer of 2011, we have witnessed the slow but inevitable crash of the failing eurozone at an endless stream of summits that couldn’t agree on anything and provided no solutions

At the Sharp End: Ivan Massow

The founder and CEO of Massow’s Financial Services faces the Spear’s grilling

Tim Minchin, Woody Allen Jesus and Political Correctness

Has political correctness now swung too far the other way in being conservative? Melinda Hughes looks at the case of singer Tim Minchin and his song Woody Allen Jesus

Fur Returns to Men's Fashion

Fur What its Worth

Nick Foulkes examines the hair-raising comeback of fur in men’s fashion and finds a silver lining

Grief Encounter

Andrei Navrozov remembers his tormented and ultimately tragic college chum Nicholas Hervey, the not-quite Marquess of Bristol 

Spear's Wine Column: Marlon Abela Tastes Bordeaux

Moments of Claret

In his second Spear’s column on the world’s finest wines, Marlon Abela looks at the comeback of Bordeaux and compares the early-Noughties vintages that helped the region’s renaissance 

Juerg Zeltner of UBS on Philanthropy, the Eurozone and Rogue Traders

The Snowball Effect

The hills are alive with the sound of... giving? Josh Spero joins UBS’s philanthropy conference in St Moritz and talks exclusively to Juerg Zeltner, global Wealth Management CEO

Spear's Letters 

Spear's readers respond to the proposed national planning reforms and Spear's Save Britain's Historic Landscape Campaign

Editor's Letter

The problem with producing an Asian special is that too many pieces suggest themselves. There is barely a country without a dynamic growth story (as the bankers say) or a fascinating luxury tourist industry or a history, landscape, culture which makes gripping reading

From William Cash

The mahogany panelled lifts of the Grade II* listed Midland Hotel in Manchester, are not where you normally expect to find guerilla fly-posters drawing attention to controversial planning reforms.