Lydia Figes
Lydia Figes is Content Editor at Art UK and a freelance journalist. She tweets at @LydiaRFiges
Being the girl in the green jumper
Cyril Mann’s muse, Renske Mann, rescues the artist from forgotten obscurity
Women who report abuse face losing their children
The feminist fix: Train police and social workers to protect abused mothers
Finnish on a high note
The biggest symphony orchestras are in need of music directors: but who’s in the running for the top spot?
Georgia on my mind
There is an exodus of Muscovites with money to Tbilisi and Turkey
We mustn’t repeal the Human Rights Act
The European Court of Human Rights is a necessary check against authoritarianism
Irish irredentism?
You can’t back a “United Ireland” whilst condemning “Greater Hungary”
Restore the family to British social policy
Rakib’s Britain: The Left has betrayed its roots by ignoring the evils of family break-down
Labour’s Wakefield win is nothing to crow over
Maybe turning Labour into the “some-women-have-penises” party isn’t such a popular electoral strategy after all
Stop monstering Hungary
Our brave author put his head in the mouth of the Hungarian dragon
De-Goulding: an incomplete coda
Part two of Mahan Esfahani’s deconstruction of the modern association of pianist Glenn Gould with Bach’s Goldberg Variations