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Michael Henderson

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Gambling against the crash: my school-fee payment plan

James Delingpole

28th October, 2008

As the economy crumbles, James Delingpole, novelist and television critic for The Spectator, tries his hand at spread betting and discovers it’s not as easy as he’d hoped

Gambling against the crash: my school-fee payment plan

Gambling against the crash: my school-fee payment plan

James Delingpole

28th October, 2008

As the economy crumbles, James Delingpole, novelist and television critic for The Spectator, tries his hand at spread betting and discovers it’s not as easy as he’d hoped

Rich meets poor: the perils of unequal hospitality

Mary Killen

2nd October, 2008

Mary Killen, The Spectator’s ‘Dear Mary’ columnist and expert on modern manners, explores the etiquette of friendship with the over-monied

The Russians are coming

William Cash

3rd September, 2008

William Cash says oligarchs are eyeing up trophy villas on the paradise island – and threatening to price its traditional wealthy and fun-loving holiday crowd out of the market

The recession that gave birth to the Erotic Review

Rowan Pelling

2nd July, 2008

Rowan Pelling on the halcyon days of the enterprise that brought the world the Illustrated Book of Bottoms and poshtotty.com

The nastiest – no, the smartest – businessmen I know

Taki

3rd June, 2008

What makes a businessman clever? The Spectator’s High Life columnist, Taki, has met a few. So he should know

What’s a girl to do in a downturn?

Jasmine Birtles

6th May, 2008

Are you strapped for cash? Reduced to drinking Cava and shopping at Lidl? Money expert Jasmine Birtles shares a few brilliant wheezes for financial survival

 
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A new job for the IMF: as global policeman

Elliot Wilson 26/11/2008

Carbon footprints

Elisabeth Jeffries 26/11/2008

General Motors must be allowed to crash

Matthew Lynn 26/11/2008

‘These clouds will have a silver lining’

Judi Bevan 19/11/2008
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