DSK and French hypocrisy
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has never been anything but a trumped up, poor excuse of a man of of affaires Dominique Strauss-Kahn…
ByMonth: May 2011
Frieze Announces Two New Fairs
Frieze Art Fair will launch two new art fairs next year, its co-founders Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover announced on…
ByDesign for Living II
Photos of the winners at the Spear’s Design for Living Awards 2011, in association with Harrods
ByDesign for Living
Photos from the Spear’s Design for Living Awards 2011
ByWeapons of Mass Deduction
From literary festivals in Cheltenham, to salon style 5×15 events, TED Talks and Intelligence Squared it seems the public’s appetite…
ByNo Safe Haven
One man has declared war on the world’s most powerful low-tax jurisdictions. Nicholas Shaxson tells Freddy Barker why his book…
ByPay will reach ‘Victorian levels’ of inequality, says report
If current pay trends continue, by 2030 inequality in the UK could reach levels not seen since Victorian England, according…
ByDSK in the slammer. WTF?
News of the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn convinced me that when I woke up on Sunday morning, I was in…
ByS&P: Macro Monday
The US housing market is centre stage in the coming week with several updates due. The UK agenda is also…
ByTurning over Goldstone
Most of the pro-Arab Western European media continues to throw mud at Israel, as the murderer of innocents Most of…
ByGuardian: Vindictive billionaire’s fortune finally distributed
He called it his “golden egg”, and for 92 years it has been incubating quietly in a trust fund in…
ByFor City boys and gulls
The annual Gulls’ Eggs City Luncheon brings together 600 of London’s top wealth managers, bankers and lawyers to feast on…
ByNorwegians Would
With all the hullabaloo made over sovereign wealth funds, it’s surprising that one of the largest is one of the…
ByBoE: Growth revised down, inflation high till 2013
GDP growth for the first quarter of this year was estimated at 0.5 per cent, and for the whole of…
ByArt Newspaper: Sotheby’s stock falls as sales fail to meet estimate
As Sotheby’s prepared to hold the second part of its contemporary art evening sales tonight, the company’s stock took a…
ByFT: HMRC aiming for billions from LDF
Revenue & Customs said it was on track to collect billions of pounds from its amnesty with Liechtenstein, after statistics…
ByWithers: Mosley case good news for press
The decision from Strasbourg will be applauded for its good sense and vital protection of free speech Below is reaction…
ByWhich rich list?
Surely the man who invented twofacebook.com, to keep best frenemies connected, would find a place alongside the Mittals and Grosvenors?…
BySunday Times Rich List 2011
Having seen their wealth soar 30% in 2010 to ’334 billion, still recovering from 2008’s low, Britain’s richest 1000 have…
ByGoing Nowhere
The UK economy might as well be The Grand Old Duke of York’s Army: for six months the UK economy…
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