Spear's Wealth Management Survey

William Cash

William Cash is Editor-in-Chief of Spear's WMS and has twice won Editor of the Year at the PPA Awards (2007 and 2008).

Gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show can teach us about life

As with the best poetry - from Elizabethan to Ezra Pound - best gardens can be 'difficult' to read

Addicted to Josephine Home's bed linen

We have renamed the Gatehouse bedroom in which Lady Thatcher and Sir Denis once slept at Upton Cressett in her honour

Love on the Rocks

The reason I will never go back to the Grand Hotel du Cap Ferrat is sentimentality, stabbed with romantic nostalgia

Charmed by The Love-Charm of Bombs

I've been reading a book with the wonderful title of 'The Love-Charm of Bombs', which examines the literary work and loves of four wartime writers

Hudson's Heritage Awards Recognise Our History

This Thursday will see the winners announced of the 2012 Hudson’s Heritage awards at a lunch ceremony at Goldsmith's Hall in London

Upton Cressett Given Grade I Heritage Listing

After a year-long campaign, William Cash's historic home, Upton Cressett, has been upgraded to Grade I listing, giving it extra protection from the meance of wind turbines

How Mitchell Should Have Handled Plebgate

Matthew Freud's own column deals with media rough justice and how to handle it

Literary Howlers Make Me Howl

Writers are only human and mistakes are all too easily made but it is less forgivable when mistakes - 'misprints' as they are often referred to - appear between hard covers by a respectable publisher

How Upton Cressett Provides a Taste of (the Good Parts of) Tudor Life

Yesterday I received an email from The Landmark Trust who do up architectural follies, gatehouses, moated keeps and other heritage oddities for holiday lets — inviting me to 'Experience the Life of a Tudor Squire. But without the lice'.

The Half-Naked MP, The Gardener and Heidi Fleiss

No doubt tourists would be astonished to know that the sixteen stone figure walking around the garden sans shirt, or even t-shirt, is a long-standing Member of Parliament

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