Jim Kerr
Scottish singer and songwriter
Not much. Given that I’m up and active most mornings around 5am, I’ve had enough of everything by 9pm.
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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The climate catastrophe.
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Kim Wilde
English pop singer
I sleep very soundly.
Perimenopausal anxiety, the terrible feeling of impending doom, something awful happening to my children, writing deadlines. Apart from that, I’m quite chilled.
John Simm
English musician and actor
A couple of years ago we moved to East Sussex – I had been living in London for 35 years – and couldn’t work out why I kept waking up and thinking, what’s that sound? It was actually silence.
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View profile →Walking in the rainforest with my mother, back in Nicaragua. She loved it, and inspired me to devote much of my life to protecting the environment.
I was brought up Catholic, to believe that marriage is for life. And we failed.
I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.
More sleep, less stress.
To my daughter, because she felt that I spent too much time saving other children. I would go to war zones and travel the world for human rights work, and she was missing me.
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