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The UK's heritage buildings need commercial nous to survive and thrive

The country's best loved landmarks won't stay in mint condition without generating revenue - but there's no denying the challenges, says Moya Maxwell

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Review: Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, West Yorkshire Playhouse

William Cash on a cast trying to find their way through the woods

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Wallace Collection’s future of museums debate fails to look to the long-term

Museums can’t see past the next five years – but they need to look further ahead to save themselves, says Josh Spero

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Review: Weill and Brecht, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Royal...

Melinda Hughes takes in the renegade opera, performed for the first time at the Royal Opera House after 85 years

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Does money maketh minimalism?

Sam Leith has a stiff task finding staff to organise his stuff. Better to have nothing!

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From heart specialists to private operas, Spear's meets a UHNW fixer

William Cash meets chief fixer at BHB Partners Harry Becher, who explains that in his world there's no such thing as a normal request

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Exclusive: Adam Dant's sketches from Richard III's reburial

Adam Dant - the official national general election artist - accompanied Spear's editor William Cash to the Richard the III's reburial. Here are his sketches of the reburial, and text by William

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Boy About Town takes us through his Easter Extravaganza

Zak Smith tours London this weekend via chocolates at Venchi, lunch at Joe’s Oriental Diner, comedy at the Proud Archivist and the obligatory Nelly concert at the O2 arena

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Review: Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, English National Opera

Melinda Hughes takes in the ENO’s fun (if flawed) take on the macabre masterpiece

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There's more to education than the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Alessandro Tomé says broad horizons, and recognition of the importance of choice are just as important as the drive epitomised by Garry Kasparov when it comes to educating our children

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Slow-moving Suffolk moves up in the world

Clive Aslet rambles around Aldeburgh, the new home of 'delicious slightness'

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Chestertons Polo in the Park marks the start of summer

Whether you're an expert on the sport of kings or you just fancy tackling some divots, there's plenty to see this week at Hurlingham Park

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Hedgehog 45 on sailing, decorating, giving and drinking

All the juiciest news and gossip from the latest issue of Spear's

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The monumental financial inequality of the Women's World Cup

Zak Smith is annoyed that women's teams, who have just provided so much enjoyment, earn so much less than men

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BBC Proms Review: Prom 4, Beethoven 9, CBSO

Melinda Hughes on the dramatic pauses and spirited rhythms of Beethoven and Woolrich, all conducted by Andris Nelsons

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Benedetti and Marsalis unite to save creative collaboration

It's not every day that one of the best classical violinists of a generation premieres a work by one of the biggest names in modern jazz composition. Nicola Benedetti's world premiere of Wynton...

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What the making of Zero Dark Thirty teaches us about goody bag hungry-HNWs

So: something we can all get behind: goody bags. Already I see your eyes lighting up. The topic presented itself to me the other day when I read a Daily Telegraph report headlined: 'Zero Dark Thirty...

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Smartphone-controlled light can be your soundless alarm clock

Mrs Thatcher did it for four hours a night, Richard Branson for six and Donald Trump (by his own account, at least) does it for three.There is bravado among entrepreneurs, executives and politicians...

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To Instagram or not to Instagram?

If life has taught me anything, it is that it is foolhardy in the extreme to be definitive about anything, or for that matter to express even a suggestion of something definitive. When one writes such...

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