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Clare McHugh

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The price of fame / Lena Dunham is still her own worst enemy

In her seminal 1967 essay “Goodbye to All That,” Joan Didion writes of her former self, a 20-year-old naif arriving in New York City for the first...

02.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Clare Mchugh

Lena Dunham is still her own worst enemy

In her seminal 1967 essay “Goodbye to All That,” Joan Didion writes of her former self, a 20-year-old naif arriving in New York City for the first...

02.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Clare Mchugh

Rooster to Beef: The hit US TV shows making fun of the generation clash

Rooster to Beef: The TV shows making fun of the generation clash The feud between the generations was a popular TV theme in the 1970s, and now the...

01.05.2026 20

BBC

Clare Mchugh

Succession crisis / Inside the Murdoch family fallout

Terrific scripts, marvelous acting and glamorous locales – plus that haunting theme song – made HBO’s Succession superlative television. The...

03.03.2026 7

The Spectator

Clare Mchugh

Inside the Murdoch family fallout

Terrific scripts, marvelous acting and glamorous locales – plus that haunting theme song – made HBO’s Succession superlative television. The...

25.02.2026 10

The Spectator

Clare Mchugh

Love Story’s counterfeit Kennedys

Last June, Jack Schlossberg, the Kennedy nepo baby currently running for the open seat in New York’s 12th Congressional District, called out the...

21.02.2026 20

The Spectator

Clare McHugh

The tragic murder of a forgotten US president

In the late 19th Century, President James Garfield promised progress and reform – but four months after his inauguration he was shot. New series...

09.11.2025 10

BBC

Clare McHugh

A forgotten chapter in the Nuremberg trials story

The Nazi high command was put on trial 80 years ago in 1945. In the new film Nuremberg, starring Russell Crowe as the charismatic and manipulative...

25.10.2025 30

BBC

Clare McHugh

The real family drama behind House of Guinness

The latest show from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight tells the thrilling story of brewing dynasty the Guinnesses – and was devised by Guinness...

24.09.2025 40

BBC

Clare McHugh

The controversial UK clubs that kept women out

Three hundred years since they first appeared, the capital's traditional members-only gentlemen's clubs – still frequented by royalty and power...

10.07.2025 20

BBC

Clare McHugh

The lost 1930s masterpiece warning of Nazi horrors

Published years before WW2, Sally Carson's prescient novel captures the dawn of Nazi tyranny in a small German town – and remains relevant today. ...

08.05.2025 20

BBC

Clare McHugh

The truth about Henry VIII's right-hand man

With her award-winning Wolf Hall series of books, Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as TV adaptation Wolf Hall: The...

22.03.2025 10

BBC

Clare McHugh