If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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Recorded Jo Brand said elsewhere, not written here
I’d have told a racist cabbie to go fuck himself, but I was scared about being chucked out on the street at 2am.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 September 2015 source ↗

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Kevin Rowland British singer
I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗

Eve Ensler American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist
I would have honoured my body, I would have lived inside it, cherished it and protected it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2019 source ↗

Sadiq Khan Mayor of London since 2016
I would have had more time with my dad before he passed away.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2016 source ↗

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