Antiques
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
The demise of the second-hand bookshop
Why Oxfam bookshops, as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller
The man who made antiques cool
Christopher Gibbs inspired a generation of dealers, aesthetes and designers
Hat trick ball
Help me trace Gunner Costello, the fast bowler who may have survived a Court-Martial
Closing the books
Thomas Woodham-Smith finds the latest research is online
Crowded House
Thomas Woodham-Smith juggles his work-life balance
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
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
