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
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
