Contents

The Agenda

14 EDITOR’S LETTER

  • By Edwin Smith

16 READERS’ LETTERS

  • Our readers share their views

18 DIARY

  • With natural gas trader and film producer Bill Perkins

21 PHILANTHROPY

  • James Reed on how funding platform The Big Give boosts donations
  • SHOT BEFORE DAWN Photos from the 2022 Spear’s Awards at Grosvenor House on Park Lane

24 THE HEDGEHOG

  • News from around the HNW universe, from private schools to Savile Row

26 BOOKS

  • review of The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf

28 LIQUID LUNCH

  • With yacht broker Jamie Edmiston

30 MATTHEW GOODWIN

  • Rishi Sunak faces a huge battle to restore the public’s faith in this government

31 ANNAMARIA KOERLING

  • The collapse of crypto exchange FTX should act as a wake-up call for investors

32 ROBERT AMSTERDAM

  • Overbearing transparency laws are putting legitimate HNWs in danger

34 PADDY MANNING

  • The strange world of Lachlan Murdoch

The Briefing 37

Property

38 PROMISED LAND?

  • The Spear’s Property Survey 2023 uncovers some divided opinions but largely optimism in the industry

41 LOFTY AMBITIONS

  • The man plotting the next stage of Canary Wharf ’s evolution says it will look beyond the world of work
  • THE POWER OF ONE Why so many high-end developments now have ‘One’ in their name

43 DUBAI’S PRIME TIME

  • From ‘Covid Casablanca’ to a booming property market, Dubai has turned things around, says John Arlidge

47 BASE INSTINCTS

  • new project aims to fill the gap between permanent residences and hotels for homely stays in London
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