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Kevin McCloud: Consumption doesn’t make you happy
The Grand Designs presenter on resisting commercialism and why sustainability and authenticity go hand in hand.
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.
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.
Nick Mulvey: 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.
Theresa Lola: Poetry can transport you to places you’ve never been in ten lines. It’s emotion compressed
The Nigerian British award winning poet on poetry as a way to reclaim language, connect with heritage, and ask questions that don’t need neat answers.
Elif Shafak: We live in an age of too much information, very little knowledge, and even less wisdom
The award-winning novelist on water scarcity, vanishing democracies, and why she believes stories are one of the last defences against numbness.
Marcus Brigstocke: It started to bother me that testosterone, a hormone in my body, has become shorthand for something bad
The British comedian on fatherhood, mental health, male identity and the appeal of figures like Andrew Tate.
Axel Scheffler: Picture books should leave children with some sense of hope. Otherwise, what are we doing?
The Gruffalo illustrator and best-selling author on drawing animals, protecting childhood, and staying politically engaged through art.
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: What does “better” really mean – and for whom? Who defines it?
British artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on why hope, imagination, and curiosity are more essential than ever.
Brandon: Music, like nature, isn’t a commodity we should buy and sell: it’s sacred
The Californian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist on resisting the speed and greed of the world and protecting the things that matter.
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