Busy doing nothing
Thomas Woodham-Smith adjusts to a gentler pace of conducting business
Secrets of Portobello
Thomas Woodham-Smith treasures a classic antiques street market
Friends old and new
Thomas Woodham-Smith doesn’t collect, he simply accumulates stock
On nodding terms
Thomas Woodham-Smith says the most vocal customers rarely buy
Wheeling and spieling
Thomas Woodham-Smith breaks the antique shop silence
Lovely legs, madam
Thomas Woodham-Smith on the sexed-up fantasies of the antique dealer
Swap till you drop
Thomas Woodham-Smith enjoys a great trade tradition
Closing the books
Thomas Woodham-Smith finds the latest research is online
Crowded House
Thomas Woodham-Smith juggles his work-life balance
A real show-stopper
Thomas Woodham-Smith is forced to pack up and go home
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
The curious incuriosity of multiculturalists
We cannot blind ourselves to differences between people
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
