January 2016 - Spear's Magazine

Trump, Corbyn and politics of the absurd

Month: January 2016

Blog from the Editor-in-Chief

In the new issue of Spear’s, I have written about how the Earl of March is set to make another success with his brilliant idea of charging HNW and corporate guests £10,000 a night to stay in his luxury ten-bedroom country house called Hound Lodge – the Goodwood estate’s former ‘luxury’ kennels. What I also suspect is that the success of the £10,000-a-night model of Hound Lodge will be the final nail in the coffin of that outdated 70s idea: the self-catering holiday. Self-catering is now as déclassé as camping holidays around France.

Spear’s Winter Dinner

AfrAsia Bank Cape Wine Auction woos collectors, socialites and philanthropists alike

Emily Sluzewski looks ahead to February’s auction in South Africa, where even online bidders can come away with the finest sun-kissed wine.

Britain must boost its golden visas, not end them

An amendment to the 2015 Immigration Bill tabled this week has come as a surprise to immigration lawyers in the City like myself. Baroness Hamwee and Lord Paddick (both Liberal Democrats) are proposing the abolition of the Tier 1 Investor visa from 1 January 2017 – the visa granted if you invest more than £2 million in the UK.

Immortalising Bernard Buffet

‘Before his 30th birthday he had bought himself a castle in the South of France, an island and a Rolls-Royce (he did not drive it but thought it was a very attractive vehicle).’ Nick Foulkes on possibly the last great French (really French) painter.

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