Nick Mulvey

Name: The Skylark
Address: GB

I didn’t want to be the chief of my life anymore

The UK singer-songwriter on childhood, family, prayer, and the practices that have helped him find his way back to music and to himself.

Nina Sosanya: Jurassic Park shows what happens when you mess with nature - it bites your head off!

The stage, TV, and film actor on city life vs. countryside, filming floods in a heatwave, and why nature always finds a way.

Adam Buxton: Sometimes I think, f**k it! And then I think, “Oh no, I’ve let George Monbiot down”

The comedian, podcaster, and reluctant naturalist on IMAX skies, positive change, and finding balance in a world of climate uncertainty.

Benjamin Zephaniah: Most great revolutions start from the bottom and come up

The poet, writer, lyricist and musician on living a life that aspires to "do the least harm and most good".

EXPERT CONVERSATIONS

Kumi Naidoo: How did we move people into the struggle against apartheid? Music, dance, and theatre

Cristina Zenato: I taught Will Smith to trust sharks – now I’m helping others mend their disconnection with the ocean

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim: Women and Indigenous peoples can help win the war on climate change

Captain Paul Watson: We’ve become a bunch of conceited naked apes, divine legends in our minds

Elif Shafak

We live in a world of too much information, very little knowledge, and even less wisdom

Shafak discusses the origins of her new novel There Are Rivers in the Sky, the rise of emotional numbness, the vanishing of rivers beneath cities, and why she believes literature is still one of the most powerful forces we have to resist apathy.

EDITOR'S PICK

David George Haskell: Can we know more leaf shapes than corporate logos?

The Pulitzer Prize Nominee on reconnecting with nature, tuning into its sounds, sights, and textures, and finding joy in sensory awareness.

Jess Fostekew: I knew I wanted to be a funny loud angry b*tch screaming in favour of clean air

The comedian on trolling, ULEZ, and why making climate change funny might be her toughest gig yet.

Oliver Jeffers: Science and logic won’t always win somebody over, but stories will

The Lost & Found artist and storyteller on the untapped power of everyday people in the climate fight.

OUR PARTNERS

The Skylark partners with organisations and social enterprises whose work advances critical responses to the climate and nature crises.

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Nick Mulvey

I didn’t want to be the chief of my life anymore

Marcus Du Sautoy: Sidelining arts in the national curriculum is impacting a generation of scientists

Theresa Lola: Poetry can transport you to places you’ve never been in ten lines. It’s emotion compressed

Elif Shafak: We live in an age of too much information, very little knowledge, and even less wisdom

Marcus Brigstocke: It started to bother me that testosterone, a hormone in my body, has become shorthand for something bad

Shi Heng Yi: Don’t wait for the world to change. Start with yourself.

Axel Scheffler: Picture books should leave children with some sense of hope. Otherwise, what are we doing?

Miranda Cowley Heller: The urge for control is stronger than ever. We have this terrible need to own everything

Ed Vere: Being compassionate, kind, gentle, empathetic and creative isn’t a weakness, it’s part of being a fully rounded human being

MOST READ

Nina Sosanya: Jurassic Park shows what happens when you mess with nature - it bites your head off!

Adam Buxton: Sometimes I think, f**k it! And then I think, “Oh no, I’ve let George Monbiot down”

Benjamin Zephaniah: Most great revolutions start from the bottom and come up

EXPERT CONVERSATIONS

Kumi Naidoo: How did we move people into the struggle against apartheid? Music, dance, and theatre

Cristina Zenato: I taught Will Smith to trust sharks – now I’m helping others mend their disconnection with the ocean

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim: Women and Indigenous peoples can help win the war on climate change

Captain Paul Watson: We’ve become a bunch of conceited naked apes, divine legends in our minds

Elif Shafak

We live in a world of too much information, very little knowledge, and even less wisdom

EDITOR'S PICK

David George Haskell: Can we know more leaf shapes than corporate logos?

Jess Fostekew: I knew I wanted to be a funny loud angry b*tch screaming in favour of clean air

Oliver Jeffers: Science and logic won’t always win somebody over, but stories will

OUR PARTNERS

Brandon: Music, like nature, isn’t a commodity we should buy and sell: it’s sacred

Sirens of Lesbos: If we don’t also tackle war, extraction, inequality, then the rest is just cosmetic

Matilda Mann: Good storytelling opens things up in ways facts can’t

Jawara Alleyne: There’s so much influence, but not much is actually influencing

Thomasina Miers: Politicians are cowards when it comes to saying, ‘Eat a bit less meat.’ They won’t touch it. But that’s the issue

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: My omnivorous habits are under review. I wouldn’t rule out concluding we can’t really afford to eat meat at all

Charlotte Church: Singing is humanity’s most powerful tool for healing and connection

Maddie Moate: We are seeing fewer faces of actual human beings on children's television

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