Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet.
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Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
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Rhys Ifans
Welsh actor and musician
That things didn’t get better.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 September 2019 source ↗
Noah Harari
Israeli historian and philosopher
That I still don’t understand life. When I was young, I thought at some point I would find somebody who does. I am 45, and there is a good chance that I’ll never meet somebody like that.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗
Sadiq Khan
Mayor of London since 2016
Labour losing the 2015 election: we weren’t able to help the people who needed us most.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2016 source ↗
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View profile →The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2017 source ↗
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2017 source ↗
A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2017 source ↗
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2017 source ↗
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2017 source ↗
Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
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