Lydia Figes
Lydia Figes is Content Editor at Art UK and a freelance journalist. She tweets at @LydiaRFiges
Tove Jansson’s humane vision
A major Paris exhibition highlights timeless themes of the Finnish artist’s ouvre
Being the girl in the green jumper
Cyril Mann’s muse, Renske Mann, rescues the artist from forgotten obscurity
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London