Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2017 source ↗
On a personal level, the friend who is a single mum raising two kids by herself during this Covid era. She is a real hero. If a historical personality, I choose Mikhail Gorbachev, who probably saved the world from world war three.
Rod Stewart. For obvious reasons.
Richard Hamilton – as my teacher at college, he greatly influenced my ways of seeing art and the world.
Anyone who promotes peace.
A writer. Always.
I’ve never had a terrible job. I’ve been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are and I haven’t done them.
Pulling yourself out of a wild ocean and on to a life raft.
Before email was invented.
Fran Lebowitz, Abi Morgan, Reece Shearsmith, Ruth Jones, Jane Asher, Julian Clary
Search the directory for somebody in particular.