Dealing
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
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
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
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Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
