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
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Green in name only
The Green Party doesn’t understand the realities of rural life
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
