Pete suggests

Email registration

Free weekly email update

Great products and special offers for Spectator readers

Click here for great value events

Click here for exclusive articles, offers, tasting notes and discussion

Investment

Grid locked

Much like Britain’s homeowners, National Grid has decided that if you don’t need to sell, you might as well wait – and do the place up while you wait.

Features

Reasons to be smug at WH Smith

The fortunes of two of our most familiar retailers could not be more different, says Judi Bevan. While Woolworths has gone into administration, WH Smith marches ever forward

Tesco’s price squeeze: a genius PR move or a huge mistake?

At a party, I bump into one of the country’s best-known supermarket bosses.

Investor

The moral investor

Jonathan Davis asks leading investors for their market views. This month: James Bevan, who manages money for charities and churches, including the Church of England

’Tis the season to be useful

Most of the money we spend on Christmas gifts is wasted, says Mike Dickson. So why not give your cash and your time to a good cause?

City Life

Corruption is the hot election issue, but the biggest fish are yet to be fried

Eric Ellis

Lessons for life from the Crash of ’73

David Young, who later served in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet and as chairman of Cable & Wireless, recalls his struggle for survival as an up-and-coming entrepreneur

David Young

Click here for full contents