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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
