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Everyone should have a hobby. It might be golf, stamp-collecting, painting, building model aircraft or beekeeping. Mine is auctioneering. I…
Leanne Benjamin
Watch Leanne Benjamin slot her tiny frame into the corner of a sofa and you can easily believe she could…
World View
Bathers Albania, 2006 What I like about Tom’s pictures is that they don’t state the obvious. He has a singular…
A Vote (and a Prayer) for Beautiful Architecture
If you magically brought back to life an ancestor from 200 years ago and gave them a quick tour around…
Golden Rules
Surely everyone holds gold by now? Strangely, they don’t. The price has gone from $250 an ounce to $1,700 an…
Joining the Big League
In 1996, a star baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves named Mark Wohlers gave up a crucial home run in…
Pretty Party
When I was at Oxford no one — as in no one who was anyone — would have dreamt of…
Send her Victorious
‘We need a theme,’ said one of the ladies at our first town meeting to discuss how we should celebrate…
The Unwhippables
On the night of the great Tory rebellion over Europe, David Cameron had good reason to think that Zac Goldsmith…
The Wish List
BRAND NEW HEIRLOOMS Clockwise from bottom left: late Victorian silver candlesticks, £520; engraved Victorian celery vase, £90; engraved Victorian decanter,…
Sacred Cow
In April, Tate Modern opens a Damien Hirst show that will be on display all the way through theOlympics, as…
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Table Talk with Tom Parker-Bowles
Lara and Livvy talk to food writer Tom Parker-Bowles about his mother's roast chicken, prep school gruel, and why, as...
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