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
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
