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
Most Read
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
