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Daylesford Angelic
My eye alighted on what looked like a menu but turned out to be the Pravda of Pimlico: 'Daylesford Organic: notes for food lovers from the butcher, creamery, garden, kitchen and bakery', as if we could forget their range of products, which a helpful DVD running on loop blasts from a plasma screen like an indoctrination clip in a cult.
Divorce now!
Spear's, as is our optimistic nature and faith in human ingenuity, has seen the upside to the downturn: now could be the best time to get divorced.
Quis ducet ipsos duces?
As Juvenal never said, who will lead the leaders? In this case, the leading hotels of the world - or rather, The Leading Hotels of the World, Ltd.
Suing for Success
If wealth managers and investment bankers could be sued simply for losing money, their lawyers’ phones would currently be ringing off the hook. There are perhaps not even enough lawyers in London to represent both the angry would-be litigants and the fearful fund managers.
The Shame of Shopping
The times, as even the dullest Birkin-wielder slouching down Sloane Street will surely have noticed, are recessionary, so when buying a new wardrobe, it is very much bad form to be seen acquiring it, hence a new trend: White Bag Syndrome.
Box by Box
In the last Hedgehog, we brought you the news that set menus are the new à la carte, and that not spending thousands on a meal was the new spending thousands. Continuing this, we have discovered that not all set menus are created equal: Nobu’s Bento Box is undoubtedly king.
Muscovite Munching
As celebrated by the new Russian edition of Spear’s WMS, Moscow is a home from home for high net worths, and when the HNWs are in town they head to Michael’s.
Ice, Ice, Baby
What's cool is hot and what cold is even hotter, according to the press release which just landed in Hedgehog's inbox: 'Land investment in Iceland represents unprecedentedly good value right now.'
Facing up to a P45
Many of London's lawyers and financiers are now working under the threat of redundancy. Josh Spero looks at the rights and questions high-earners have to consider when faced with being made redundant
Your Inflexible Friend
For too long, the strong pound has merely been a metaphor (and now not even that).
Unbillable Hours
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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.
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