Dealing
The tides of taste
Quality is as desirable as ever
Singles club
There’s a strange delight in the commercially unviable single chair
Friends old and new
Thomas Woodham-Smith doesn’t collect, he simply accumulates stock
Wheeling and spieling
Thomas Woodham-Smith breaks the antique shop silence
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
Closing the books
Thomas Woodham-Smith finds the latest research is online
Crowded House
Thomas Woodham-Smith juggles his work-life balance
A real show-stopper
Thomas Woodham-Smith is forced to pack up and go home
Antique business
Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
