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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?
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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