Hedgehog
Separating together
Divorcing using the process of collaborative law - rather than an immediate appearance in court, QCs' gowns gently flapping in the cross-currents of legal hot air - seems a rather sane solution
Hedgehog Issue 15
From riffling through Ruffer's prose to ordering your private jet through your iPhone, Hedgehog covers it all.
Greening Philanthropy
How many philanthropists does it take to change a lightbulb? None: they just fund a project helping disadvantaged youth to learn a skill and wait in the dark till they can do it.
Judging a book by its cover
Uch, bookbinding. It's all hideous marbled covers and yellowing pages and stumpy spines, isn't it? Well, for centuries you would have been correct, but now Prometheus Bound Books is making binding beautiful. And not just beautiful, but personal
Renewing the Impetus
Hedgehog first visited Impetus, the charity which brings together private equity money and business skills with small charities looking to grow, in issue 12. And while private equity has not been covered in glory since last summer, indeed is spending much of its time trying to battle new regulation, Impetus has been working away, and now is about to gain a new chairman.
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Painting)
When he puts down the plectrum, he picks up the paintbrush. Bob Dylan, not known as a visual artist for the greater part of his five-decade-long career, has in the past couple of years revealed his skills as a draughtsman and a painter.
Lips Open, Teeth Bared
Kiss & Tell Cabaret compose satirical songs for private parties on any theme you can imagine: the pomposity of contemporary artists or an heiress who can't get a grip on recycling.
Green and Gold and Green
To the Royal Festival Hall, where art and finance came together in a shower of green and gold. Less cryptically, the Southbank Centre were announcing this summer's Festival Brazil, sponsored by HSBC.
App My Jet
As the presiding wisdom of the age declares, if it can be done, it can be done on with an iPhone app, and now that includes booking your private jet.
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