Antiques
The tides of taste
Quality is as desirable as ever
Singles club
There’s a strange delight in the commercially unviable single chair
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
Secrets of Portobello
Thomas Woodham-Smith treasures a classic antiques street market
Wheeling and spieling
Thomas Woodham-Smith breaks the antique shop silence
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
One small step for Jenrick…
…one giant disappointment for Mel Stride
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
