The tides of taste
Quality is as desirable as ever
Singles club
There’s a strange delight in the commercially unviable single chair
Bring home the bacon
The humble bacon sandwich is the only possible choice for breakfast
It’s all in the mix
Modern office furniture can now happily sit alongside Queen Anne walnut
Digging a new scene
Thomas Woodham-Smith discovers the joys of gardenalia
Man with the van
Thomas Woodham-Smith on the trade’s true mavericks
Poop poop purchases
Thomas Woodham-Smith goes shopping for the dealer’s friend, a whale on wheels
Only collect
The key to successful selling is to cultivate collectors
Trophy cabinets
Thomas Woodham-Smith meets the go-to man for classic English furniture
Shock of the new
Thomas Woodham-Smith frets about how to handle real, live customers
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
