Antiques Arena

I once stood in front of James Webb’s Shipwreck at Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery for close to thirty minutes. I knew nothing about James Webb at the time. I had not studied his life, I did not know where the painting fitted into his career, and I was not trying to identify the paint or explain his technique. I was looking at a ship being destroyed by the se...

I was driving down the motorway recently, looking at all the cars going past me, and for some reason I started looking at them differently. Not as cars, but as people.

There were old cars that might only be worth a couple of thousand pounds. There were family cars, work vans, new cars and expensive cars. Every now and again there was something seriously expensive th...

I am not telling anybody to quit their job, sit on a beach and wait for passive income to appear. That is internet nonsense. You still have to work. You may have to work harder than you do now at the beginning. What I am telling you is that if every pound you earn stops the second you stop working, you have built yourself ...