Hedgehog
Hedgehog Issue 12
From why you should divorce now to the true wisdom of financiers, from China to the Alps via Highgrove, it's all in Hedgehog
Join My Jet Club
The current economic climate may not be the best time for luxury industries to taxi along the runway, but the upward trajectory of new private jet companies suggests otherwise.
Survey Squared
Hedgehog knows that people do not ordinarily like to talk about their wealth, but when your interlocutor is a computer screen, you can let loose. If you are so inclined, then, do visit Scorpio Partnership's Future Wealth Report to participate in a survey about your wealth - how you made it, how you spend it and how you will leave it.
Mayfair Marathon
If there are two things Hedgehog likes, they are charity events and seeing celebrities sweat.
Dr. Bling
'End of bling is nigh' warns new study from Georgios Patsiaouras of the University of Leicester School of Management. 'Research reveals recession will sound death knell on conspicuous consumption.' Also in today's news: Pope Catholic.
A Million-Pound Life: £20
How much is a banker's life worth? Not very much, the baying crowds cry. And one banker would agree: he's selling all the accoutrements of a life in the City - country house, car, boat - in a spot-the-ball competition whose tickets are £20.
Salivating at the Mouth
You don't sense that chef Jacob Kenedy is the tantrum sort, given the calmness of the restaurant and its City patrons who have gone all daring and got out their passports for the evening.
Walpole Position
Classics become classics by dint of endurance, so it is too early to say that any of the 'Brands of Tomorrow', as picked by the FSA of luxury, Walpole, will become classics, but on the basis of their previous picks, you wouldn't bet against them.
Another famous Belgian
We all know the parlour game, Can you name ten famous Belgians? I once tried this with some Belgians and they weren't very impressed (although they couldn't name ten either).
Non-Doms See the Bright Side
How non-doms can take advantage of the downturn and avoid the £30,000 charge, from Hedgehog's friends at Boodle Hatfield.
Unbillable Hours
Our specialists solve your HNW problems (gratis!)
Q
I have been reading in the press recently that if you are not a UK citizen it is going to become more difficult to divorce in the UK. Is this true?
A
It is a fact that in recent years there has been an increase in ‘forum shopping’ divorces and London has been described as the divorce capital of the world.
Spear's Wire
The Hedgehog
Spear's Spiky Undercover Agent Dishes the Gossip
