The question
What has been your biggest disappointment?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Looking back is not productive.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗
My friends dying: Alexander (McQueen), Isabella (Blow), a friend of cancer last year.
Not being chosen as the next Bond.
I travelled all the way to the Arctic Circle to see the aurora borealis, then fell asleep and missed it.
The behaviour of those dogs.
Ignorance and rudeness. Decency and a please and thank you cost nothing.
“Do you know what your problem is?” It was a dear friend of mine. They were referring to the fact that I’m impatient.
John McCarthy, the journalist who was held captive for five years in Beirut. I’ve met him and he was so full of peace, humility and forgiveness – it was inspiring.
A Porsche 911 Turbo.
I’m slightly impatient.
I was a guard on the Orient Express – however, only when it was stationed at a railway siding in Vauxhall.
Tracey Ullman, Michael Palin, Suzi Quatro, Sheena Easton, David Hasselhoff, Andy Murray
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