CONTENTS

‘If I were to tell you who I act for, a bit like James Bond and MI5, I’d have to kill you’

Debbie chism in our lawyers index (page 80)

104 The danes who are t he apple of our eyes

52 buzz aldrin on life in space and under wat er

114 a dutch mast erpiece

126 sparkling occasions

14 Leaders 18 F rom the Founder 20 E ditor’s Letter 22 Diary

Elizabeth Hurley on rabbits, light bulbs, puzzles and playing the Queen 24 The Hedgehog 28 The G iver and the Gift

How the gift of goats is helping African children 30 Shot Before Dawn

Photos from ContiniArtUK’s private dinner in Mayfair

THE COLUMNS

THE ISSUES

32 The Discriminator

Alessandro Tomé on gender confusion and a world under Boris and Donald

34 Counter Culture Sam Leith on a fight to the death in the world of New Nature Writing

36 PEP Talk

Robert Amsterdam eyes the expansion of executive power in the US, at the expense of Congress and the judiciary

38 The Law

Ceris Gardner examines the steady growth of taxation on residential property

42 Knowing When to Leave

Nigel Vinson looks back on a life in business and ahead to a life outside the EU

44 Help Yourself

Luke Johnson talks entrepreneurs, ‘monstrous’ Google and Brexit

48 Continental Thrift

As the EU referendum draws nearer, HNWs are holding their breath

50 Interview with the

V ampire Squid While financial journalism at the papers is on the wane, others are picking up the slack

40 View from St Paul’s

Guy Monson takes us through the economic side-effects of low oil and commodity prices

52 Mars Attracts

Buzz Aldrin wants countries to work together in order to reach the Red Planet

56 Victor Victorious

Ben Griffiths meets the man whose private flight start-up Victor has hit the heights

92 christo’s bridge dream

58 Horse Trading

How British Polo Day brings together movers and shakers

56 bravo V ictor

60 History in the Making

City legend Jonathan Ruffer is backing an ambitious project in Durham

64 Key Skills

The sisters who can find the ultimate holiday property