lucy kenningham
@lucykenningham.bsky.social
Freelance journalist
✍️ The Times, Financial Times, The New European, Prospect, etc
✍️ The Times, Financial Times, The New European, Prospect, etc
My experience on a murder trial helped me realise the answer to the binary question of 'jury or no jury' could be: other systems are in fact available.
www.cityam.com/i-served-mur...
www.cityam.com/i-served-mur...
I served on a murder trial - it's nothing like Channel 4's The Jury
Last week I served on a jury that convicted a man of murder - here's what I learnt, writes Lucy Kenningham
www.cityam.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
My experience on a murder trial helped me realise the answer to the binary question of 'jury or no jury' could be: other systems are in fact available.
www.cityam.com/i-served-mur...
www.cityam.com/i-served-mur...
I reviewed These New Puritans for The Standard - there really is no other band like them:
www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...
www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...
These New Puritans at Village Underground: 'Gripping and unnerving'
The Southend avant-gardists return with cerebral intensity and a haunting absence of pop polish
www.standard.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I reviewed These New Puritans for The Standard - there really is no other band like them:
www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...
www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...
To watch Kneecap is to understand that rap is a political force and it hasn’t been exhausted yet - my review:
www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...
www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...
Kneecap at Wembley Arena: Rap remains a political force
Their biggest show in London to date is another politically charged one with an impassioned - and moshpitting - crowd
www.standard.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
To watch Kneecap is to understand that rap is a political force and it hasn’t been exhausted yet - my review:
www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...
www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...
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Should any book be banned? It’s a question that, after five years, still keeps Dunnigan up at night
My dispatch from Tallinn is in this week's FT Magazine
www.ft.com/content/8f73...
My dispatch from Tallinn is in this week's FT Magazine
www.ft.com/content/8f73...
Inside the world’s only museum of forbidden books
A living critique of censorship, containing everything from ‘Mein Kampf’ to ‘Tintin in the Congo’, which can sometimes leave visitors in tears
www.ft.com
May 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Should any book be banned? It’s a question that, after five years, still keeps Dunnigan up at night
My dispatch from Tallinn is in this week's FT Magazine
www.ft.com/content/8f73...
My dispatch from Tallinn is in this week's FT Magazine
www.ft.com/content/8f73...
I spent an evening with Bridge Watch and wrote this piece for The Times - intervening in suicide makes a massive difference as attempts are often far more spontaneous than is often assumed www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
The volunteers who intervene to stop suicides on London’s bridges
The charity Bridge Watch helps desperate people when they are at their lowest point — when they are considering going into the River Thames
www.thetimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I spent an evening with Bridge Watch and wrote this piece for The Times - intervening in suicide makes a massive difference as attempts are often far more spontaneous than is often assumed www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
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Better public toilets are "a basic human right,” says Raymond Martin, director of the British Toilet Association. “People with disabilities are suffering. So are delivery drivers, parkrunners, children"
@lucykenningham.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk
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@lucykenningham.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
The man fighting to protect the UK’s public loos
Raymond Martin, director of the British Toilet Association, has spent his life campaigning to improve lavatory standards
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
July 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Better public toilets are "a basic human right,” says Raymond Martin, director of the British Toilet Association. “People with disabilities are suffering. So are delivery drivers, parkrunners, children"
@lucykenningham.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
@lucykenningham.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
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Unless we confront those deeper drivers of obesity – what we eat, how it’s sold, and who has access to healthy choices – no injection will win the war on weight.
✏️ @lucykenningham.bsky.social
✏️ @lucykenningham.bsky.social
Hooked on Ozempic
Weight loss jabs really can help people to slim down. But that’s when the problems start
www.thenewworld.co.uk
July 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Unless we confront those deeper drivers of obesity – what we eat, how it’s sold, and who has access to healthy choices – no injection will win the war on weight.
✏️ @lucykenningham.bsky.social
✏️ @lucykenningham.bsky.social
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As censorship rises, the Museum of Banned Books in Estonia offers a quiet but powerful response.
The Financial Times also features insight from PEN International on threats to free expression.
Read more: www.ft.com/content/8f73...
The Financial Times also features insight from PEN International on threats to free expression.
Read more: www.ft.com/content/8f73...
Inside the world’s only museum of forbidden books
A living critique of censorship, containing everything from ‘Mein Kampf’ to ‘Tintin in the Congo’, which can sometimes leave visitors in tears
www.ft.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As censorship rises, the Museum of Banned Books in Estonia offers a quiet but powerful response.
The Financial Times also features insight from PEN International on threats to free expression.
Read more: www.ft.com/content/8f73...
The Financial Times also features insight from PEN International on threats to free expression.
Read more: www.ft.com/content/8f73...
I went to see a play where the characters never emerge from behind a screen! Oh, and there's no plot.
Here's what Jon Fosse's piercing new play says about the suffocating loneliness of the human experience (sigh). Find out for yourself at The Coronet www.cityam.com/einkvan-at-t...
Here's what Jon Fosse's piercing new play says about the suffocating loneliness of the human experience (sigh). Find out for yourself at The Coronet www.cityam.com/einkvan-at-t...
Einkvan at The Coronet: Jon Fosse play is appropriately gruelling - City AM
Einkvan, a play by Nobel Prize-winning author Jon Fosse is excruciating stuff – but then so is human suffering.
www.cityam.com
May 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I went to see a play where the characters never emerge from behind a screen! Oh, and there's no plot.
Here's what Jon Fosse's piercing new play says about the suffocating loneliness of the human experience (sigh). Find out for yourself at The Coronet www.cityam.com/einkvan-at-t...
Here's what Jon Fosse's piercing new play says about the suffocating loneliness of the human experience (sigh). Find out for yourself at The Coronet www.cityam.com/einkvan-at-t...
ft serving up god's work
May 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
ft serving up god's work
Should any book be banned? It’s a question that, after five years, still keeps Dunnigan up at night
My dispatch from Tallinn is in this week's FT Magazine
www.ft.com/content/8f73...
My dispatch from Tallinn is in this week's FT Magazine
www.ft.com/content/8f73...
Inside the world’s only museum of forbidden books
A living critique of censorship, containing everything from ‘Mein Kampf’ to ‘Tintin in the Congo’, which can sometimes leave visitors in tears
www.ft.com
May 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Should any book be banned? It’s a question that, after five years, still keeps Dunnigan up at night
My dispatch from Tallinn is in this week's FT Magazine
www.ft.com/content/8f73...
My dispatch from Tallinn is in this week's FT Magazine
www.ft.com/content/8f73...
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🎢 A compelling piece by @lucykenningham.bsky.social on seaside heritage, regional deprivation, and the timber titan that is the Grand National Scenic Rollercoaster (1935), one of the cases on this year’s #C20RiskList
May 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🎢 A compelling piece by @lucykenningham.bsky.social on seaside heritage, regional deprivation, and the timber titan that is the Grand National Scenic Rollercoaster (1935), one of the cases on this year’s #C20RiskList
“I’ll be known as the fertilisation president,” the newly elected Trump said this March.
America is becoming even more Gilead. My review of the final season of The Handmaid's Tale: sadly, it's only more relevant in 2025 than 2017 www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfi...
America is becoming even more Gilead. My review of the final season of The Handmaid's Tale: sadly, it's only more relevant in 2025 than 2017 www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfi...
The Handmaid's Tale season six, episode one review: 'bloody horror becomes bland'
The final season of The Handmaid's Tale arrives with timely grimness but is in danger of misery overload
www.standard.co.uk
May 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“I’ll be known as the fertilisation president,” the newly elected Trump said this March.
America is becoming even more Gilead. My review of the final season of The Handmaid's Tale: sadly, it's only more relevant in 2025 than 2017 www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfi...
America is becoming even more Gilead. My review of the final season of The Handmaid's Tale: sadly, it's only more relevant in 2025 than 2017 www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfi...
I reviewed Conor McPherson's new play, which features a fantastic array of insults to hurl at your siblings
www.cityam.com/the-brighten...
www.cityam.com/the-brighten...
The Brightening Air: Unbearably tense and brilliantly acted - City AM
One of London’s leading theatre lights returns in The Brightening Air – but Lucy Kenningham found this play a little too out there
www.cityam.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I reviewed Conor McPherson's new play, which features a fantastic array of insults to hurl at your siblings
www.cityam.com/the-brighten...
www.cityam.com/the-brighten...
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"Israel has now fully blocked the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza for over fifty days."
And still some people defend the Israel government.
And still some people defend the Israel government.
Joint statement on behalf of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany and the UK (E3) on Gaza:
April 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"Israel has now fully blocked the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza for over fifty days."
And still some people defend the Israel government.
And still some people defend the Israel government.
What's the future of archaeology in an age where most of our detritus is left scattered across the digital world?
I spoke to archaeologists across the world for Digital Frontier: digitalfrontier.com/articles/dar...
I spoke to archaeologists across the world for Digital Frontier: digitalfrontier.com/articles/dar...
Digital Frontier
digitalfrontier.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
What's the future of archaeology in an age where most of our detritus is left scattered across the digital world?
I spoke to archaeologists across the world for Digital Frontier: digitalfrontier.com/articles/dar...
I spoke to archaeologists across the world for Digital Frontier: digitalfrontier.com/articles/dar...
It's the "polyamory capital of the world", and one of the UK's most deprived towns. A cast of artists have wandered through it from Turner to TS Eliot. Now, Tracey Emin acts as a Medici of Margate funding artist residencies & campaigning against double glazed windows.
www.cityam.com/life-on-the-...
www.cityam.com/life-on-the-...
Life on the edge: A deep dive into the crazy world of Margate - City AM
Margate is a place of contradictions: gentrified and deprived, arty and unloved. We take a deep dive into the strangest town in the UK
www.cityam.com
April 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
It's the "polyamory capital of the world", and one of the UK's most deprived towns. A cast of artists have wandered through it from Turner to TS Eliot. Now, Tracey Emin acts as a Medici of Margate funding artist residencies & campaigning against double glazed windows.
www.cityam.com/life-on-the-...
www.cityam.com/life-on-the-...
The Estonian city of Narva is right on the edge of Europe. Only a 162-metre concrete bridge over the Narva River separates it from Russia. Along a promenade men fish and older folk stroll, while Russia stares back at them.
I spoke to people living in Narva: www.theneweuropean.co.uk/lucy-kenning...
I spoke to people living in Narva: www.theneweuropean.co.uk/lucy-kenning...
The bridge at the end of Europe
Across the river from Russia, the Estonian city of Narva is part of the European Union. But Vladimir Putin is watching and waiting
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
April 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The Estonian city of Narva is right on the edge of Europe. Only a 162-metre concrete bridge over the Narva River separates it from Russia. Along a promenade men fish and older folk stroll, while Russia stares back at them.
I spoke to people living in Narva: www.theneweuropean.co.uk/lucy-kenning...
I spoke to people living in Narva: www.theneweuropean.co.uk/lucy-kenning...
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More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
nyer.cm
April 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.