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  • 1 week ago | spearswms.com | Alec Marsh

    Established international and UK private banks are under pressure from the emergence of tech-enabled challenger banking services providers like never before, the Spear's 500 Live 2025 conference was told.

  • 1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Alec Marsh

    Her father, Tiny Rowland, the buccaneering Lonrho tycoon and one-time owner of The Observer who died in 1998, was an Anderson & Sheppard customer and acquired a controlling 80pc share in the business in the 1970s after being approached by cutters seeking a buyout partner.

  • 1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Alec Marsh

    You will be aware that we face a national emergency. I’m not referring to the fact that our closest ally has seemingly taken leave of its senses or the astonishing news that apparently one in four Britons is now disabled – nor that more than nine million of us of working age are economically inactive. I’m not even talking about the parlous state of the NHS. The national emergency I’m referring to is one that trumps even Trump, so brace yourselves. Soon we are going to run out of Red Arrows.

  • 1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Alec Marsh

    When did you last bump into the words ‘Made in Britain’ on a jumper, shirt or pair of trousers? There’s a chance, if you’re under 40, that you’ve never actually seen those words printed in an item of clothing – ever. And that’s quite a problem, particularly when you consider that we find ourselves in an era when the Prime Minister’s favourite two words are ‘national resilience’. The simple fact is that when it comes to clothes we aren’t resilient.

  • 1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Alec Marsh

    You will doubtless have read the news and possibly even an obituary of Group Captain John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, the last of ‘the Few’, who died this week at the great age of 105. That he lived beyond the age of 21 is little short of miraculous, of course – given that he was shot down no fewer than four times in just a fortnight during the Battle of Britain, which claimed the lives of 544 pilots out of nearly 3,000 who fought for Fighter Command.

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Alec Marsh, author and journalist
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22 Apr 25

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21 Apr 25

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21 Apr 25

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