Spear's Salon
Strong Opinion from our Stable of Star Turns
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).
From William Cash
The threat from proposed wind turbines to Winwick village is being repeated with alarming regularity across the country
Being Shakespeare
It was just Shakespeare being Shakespeare - taking a few individual experiences and making them universal
From William Cash
Why people can’t see that such fast-speed travel is something that Britain needs to catch up with our friends on the Continent is beyond me
Greene and Hill
I imagine to any passing lorry driver, it probably looked like my car had broken down: it was actually the driver who had
Curzon Street Revisited
Naming a new high-speed rail station after Lord Curzon expresses British pride in travel - and in our superb buildings for travel
Tales from First Class
That our HS2 train goes at 250 mph is no mean feat for a country who used to have the slowest and most unreliable trains.
Friends, Romans, Shropshiremen...
When is a house a home? When you have Elizabethan actors declaiming on the lawn, obviously.
Restoring the Republic
Blond has gone from dossing on an East End bean bag to host and chef de band with senior ministers. Isn't this is a man who really knows something about how to increase social mobility?
So Last Century
New York is actually a city whose very fault lines are all about cliques, racist divides, lack of social mobility and despicable prejudices
Never Let Me Go
We are forced to confront the importance of grabbing the life and love (if we are lucky) we have now
Unbillable Hours
Our specialists solve your HNW problems (gratis!)
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Is it really possible to avoid stamp duty land tax when purchasing land and property?
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A lot has been made recently in the press about buyers of some of the UK’s most expensive homes avoiding stamp duty land tax (SDLT) by purchasing their home through a company.
Spear's Wire
- UK signs double taxation agreement with Liechtenstein, extends Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility
- WBrief: UBS wealth management inflows, profits up in 2011
- S&P: European Round-up
- Spear's Submission to the Government on Protecting Britain's Heritage
- STel: 101 Tory MPs protest to No 10 about wind turbines
The Hedgehog
Spear's Spiky Undercover Agent Dishes the Gossip
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