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
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
The BBC feeds us bad science
We can’t even trust the Beeb to tell us about the basic facts of motherhood
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition