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).
Montego Bay Dispatches
The best literary referral system in the world is what fellow guests are reading around the swimming pool.
Jumby Bay Dispatches IV
The trouble with too many hotels today is that when it comes to 'relaxing', the spa has replaced the library.
Jumby Bay Dispatches III
Updike's prose reads like somebody who writes too cosily. Greene and Wolfe prefer to get their hands (and notebooks) dirty.
Jumby Bay Dispatches II
The mark of a true paradise resort is how you feel when you are trapped there: Jumby Bay has passed with distinction.
Art Spins On
How the art world – or art circus to be more exact - has changed since we first commissioned artist Adam Dant's 'The Art Bank'.
Forthcoming attractions
The new issue of Spear's is almost upon us and so I thought I would share some of the highlights with you.
Saved by the Early Birds
When the credits rolled was my name now going to be included under 'Extras' or 'With thanks to'? Clearly I wasn't playing myself any more.
Bonus Bonanza
People are sick and tired of playing poor, so it's time to start spending again - although nobody wants to talk about it.
From the Editor
The wheel has come full circle. As I write, Spear’s is about to enter a new era as we finally move out of our temporary digs in Holland Park, where we have been camping since our management buyout in September, and occupy new offices in a mews tucked away behind the Gate Cinema on Notting Hill Gate.
Unbillable Hours
Our specialists solve your HNW problems (gratis!)
Q
Is it really possible to avoid stamp duty land tax when purchasing land and property?
A
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
Links to blogs we like
Dealbreaker
Guardian Datablog
Madame Arcati
Long or Short Capital
Econbrowser
The Wealth Report
Real Time Economics
Intelligence Squared
Iain Dale's Diary
Guido Fawkes
Huffington Post
ITA Wealth Management
The Lesperance Letter