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Four Sundays, one muddy field and a thermos: I treated the local car boot sale as a proper field experiment. What I found was haggling as theatre, regulars with alliances, bizarre finds and a set of unwritten rules. In 2026, this gloriously unscripted Sunday ritual deserves to be treated as a British cultural institution.
A good pub quiz isn't a test — it's a room full of people arguing happily about the name of a dog from a 1990s advert. Here's how I'd run one in 2026 without turning it into a Google race.
Tickets for under a tenner, a raffle with a meat voucher as the top prize, and a PA that came out of somebody's loft. Village halls and community centres are quietly putting on the most interesting nights out in Britain right now — and I think we should stop treating them like a last resort.