Extract the juice

Artist David Shrigley designed the fruity cover of our Creative Health special, to mark Creativity and Wellbeing week (18-24 May). With a theme of ‘Critical Hope’, the issue features contributions from a wide range of arts and wellbeing experts. Professor Daisy Fancourt has 10 ways to increase your arts engagement, Manchester mayor Andy Burnham outlines creative projects across the city, a hospital arts programme manager explains the therapeutic benefit of art in convalescence, and three leading creatives tell us five things they wish they’d known when starting out. There’s an interactive tear-out section to make your own collage, plus a colouring-in page. And Shrigley himself offers pithy answers to our questions about art.

Also inside

• The shameful stats that show there are now enough homeless children in the UK to fill Wembley stadium twice over
• John Bird analyses the precarious state of Starmer’s leadership
• Keeley Hawes and Paapa Essiedu play a nun and a priest who fall in love in Jack Thorne’s latest, Falling
• Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones’s incredible round-the-world achievement in 1999 is explored in a new documentary, The Balloonists
• Lucy Sweet is watching Should I Marry a Murderer? (That would be a no)
• And Abergavenny vendor Hamish Scott has dreams of living in Sicily one day

And much more

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