Antique business
Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world
Fairs and fair dealing
Thomas Woodham-Smith listens with caution
Burgundy bargains
Thomas Woodham-Smith mixes gluttony and business
Party pieces
Thomas Woodham-Smith sees out the antique year
Low road to deals
Thomas Woodham-Smith heads for Brussels bargains
Fun and danger at the Fair
‘I need antique fairs like a junkie needs a needle’
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
