CONTENTS

‘You shouldn’t let the tax tail wag the dog’

LAWYER CLARE MAURICE IN OUR INDEX (PAGE 67)

102 WATCH OUT! THE DAY-DATE IS BACK

56 THE BRAINIEST MP

ON UNLEASHING

ENTERPRISE

10 Leaders 14 From the Founder 16 Editor’s Letter 18 Diary

Olga Polizzi gets glitzy when it comes to arting up her hotels at home and abroad 20 The Hedgehog

Dragons’ Den for young ’uns, a new home for Old Masters 26 The Giver and the Gift

The world’s best-connected man, Lord Weidenfeld, on what drives his giving 28 Shot Before Dawn

Spear’s breakfast debate at Masterpiece, plus we go on the buses at Ascot

112 SIT! HEEL! FIND SOME OUTBACK TRUFFLES!

98 AFRICAN ART DANCES TO ITS

OWN TUNE

THE COLUMNS

THE ISSUES

33 PEPTalk

Nigeria is about to prove its doubters wrong: it’s the country of the future, today

35 Counter Culture Sam Leith extracts the truth about the tooth fairy

36 The Discriminator

Alessandro Tomé (and his dog) star in the Great Franco-Italian Bake Of

38 The Law

Martyn Gowar damns our domicile mess

40 View f rom St Paul’s

Guy Monson on global bottlenecks (and not the kind with good wine in either)

90 WE HAVE

AN EYE ON THE IVY

44 The Family That Pays Together...

A new book of ers hope to wealth-wrecked families

46 Has Macau Had Its Chips?

Faites vos jeux: who will win when China takes on its gambling capital?

48 The Bookmakers

Josh Spero has an assignation with the couple behind luxury publishers Assouline

52 Identity Crisis

Nicholas Harrison is worried too many people are hiding behind their business cards

54 (L)earning Power

The private schools industry is booming in Africa. Michael Watts observes a class act

56 Compère the Market

Kwasi Kwarteng MP urges the government to let entrepreneurs run free

58 Going for Brokers

It’s the end for middlemen, says Mary Hanbury

62 A Head for Business

Former banker Michael Booth wasn’t mad as a hatter when he bought Bates

64 The Sweet Smell of Succession

William Cash on a 700-yearold Florentine dynasty