Eleanor Doughty
Eleanor Doughty is a freelance feature writer and interviewer
A little too mature
In Brideshead, the overriding feeling is that surely the punchline is to come. It never does
The legacy of Vanity Fair’s caricatures
Each cartoon had a story to tell about eminent figures in Victorian and Edwardian society
The future of Britain’s stately homes
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected Britain’s country houses?
The sin of pride
Nick Cohen blames testosterone for his latest sports injury
Why free market think tanks are neither evil nor geniuses
Kurt Andersen’s ‘Evil Geniuses’ is a one-sided guide to the imminent future
Murder stories for December days
Jeremy Black makes his way through the British Library’s Crime Classics collection
ERG ‘star chamber’ concludes that the Agreement restores British sovereignty
Boris Johnson’s deal has succeeded where Theresa May’s deal failed to convince the ERG’s spartans
The roaring boy Macbeth
Why Peter O’Toole’s 1980 performance at the Old Vic is remembered for all the wrong reasons
Social media hypocrisy has huge implications for liability
Social media’s ridiculous denial of partisan editing and publishing
Past imperfectionists
The extremism of the project against our traditional idea of the museum is on full display at the Pitt Rivers
Don’t expect Biden to cut the ballooning US deficit
Under Biden, the US will continue amassing a huge deficit. Is it manageable?
How liberal and egalitarian was nineteenth century France?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the conflicts and continuities of France from Louis Philippe to the Belle Epoque