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James Murray: The simplest and most powerful thing anyone can do is to take the story and pass it on
The actor, artist and campaigner on polluted rivers, the race to save wild salmon and why most activism should always begin with a story
Hamsa Yassin: My dream is that kids could name five trees before they can name five Kardashians
The wildlife cameraman, Strictly champion and children’s TV presenter on the value of boredom, what lockdown revealed about our need for the outdoors, and how modern life is squeezing the curiosity out of children too early.
Antony Szmierek: Creativity feels magic to me, something powerful and frightening to the people who need to be frightened
The musician on sensitivity, censorship and why power always fears the arts.
Billy Bragg: If you don’t make a pitch for inclusivity around the space we call England, you leave it open to the far right
The punk legend on accountability, the dangers of cynicism, and protecting Englishness from the far right.
Victoria Bateman: If every woman had the ability to control her own fertility, the world would be a very different place
The historian and Cambridge economist on the myths that erased women from history, the “tradwife” revival, and how control over women’s lives shapes economies.
Kevin McCloud: Consumption doesn’t make you happy
The Grand Designs presenter on resisting commercialism and why sustainability and authenticity go hand in hand.
Luke Adam Hawker: Nature has the potential to inspire a new type of faith
The British artist on the role of nature as a kind of modern-day faith, and why a six-hundred-year-old sweet chestnut still stops him in his tracks.
Tom Morton-Smith: When you create something for children, you need to speak to something deeper than distraction
The Olivier award-winning playwright on childhood wonder, growing up, and why care and imagination still matter in an age of churn and automation.
Beth Steel: Deindustrialisation is the great unspoken story behind much of what we see today
The playwright on the political and economic upheavals that turned Labour strongholds into Brexit and Reform seats – and why she refuses to flatten those stories into slogans.
Sumayya Vally: Gaza has never been allowed to grow like a normal city
The generation-defining South African architect on architecture’s politics, the lessons in traditional building, and speaking up when it’s easier not to.
Sophia Ray: A 90-second film can’t radically change someone’s mind, but it can plant a seed
The British filmmaker on AI’s creep into cinema and the quiet rebellion back to lo-fi.
Marcus Du Sautoy: Sidelining arts in the national curriculum is impacting a generation of scientists
The mathematician, writer, broadcaster on why we need an education system that stops forcing a choice between logic and imagination.
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