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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.
Shi Heng Yi: Don’t wait for the world to change – start with yourself
The Shaolin Master on ego, attention spans, and why real strength has as much to do with sensitivity as it does with discipline.
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.
Miranda Cowley Heller: The urge for control is stronger than ever. We have this terrible need to own everything
The novelist, poet, and former HBO executive on on childhood freedom, ecological unease, digital distractions, and the power of trees to put us in our place.
Ed Vere: Being compassionate, kind, gentle, empathetic and creative isn’t a weakness, it’s part of being a fully rounded human being
The British author-illustrator on teaching children to notice things, why boredom is underrated, and how the fences we build – on farms, in classrooms, around wildlife – do more harm than good.
Fiona Banner AKA The Vanity Press: AI is disembodying language – but it is still of us
The British artist on conflict, control, the false clarity of the picturesque – and why all art is a form of activism.
Phoebe Smith: Nature has saved my life – more than once
The adventurer, author and outdoor advocate on growing up shut out of wild places, the night under the stars that changed everything, and why access to nature is a right, not a privilege.
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: What does “better” really mean – and for whom? Who defines it?
The UK artist on why “progress” isn’t always progress, why art shouldn’t pretend to have all the answers, and why nature needs less control.
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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