Mo Gilligan: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Mo Gilligan said elsewhere, not written here

I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2021 source ↗

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Keir Starmer

My mum died in her early 70s, and for the last six or seven years of her life she couldn’t move, didn’t speak. By the time our children were born, she was too ill to communicate. I haven’t many regrets in life, but I do regret that they never got to know her, even though she was still alive for a few years. They couldn’t see her warmth, her spirit, her courage.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2023 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 ↗

Adele Parks

I would become fitter younger. Because I would have been hotter younger!

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 August 2026 source ↗

James Bay English singer-songwriter and guitarist

I couldn’t do it. I realised recently that all the things that have gone wrong are just as important as all the things that went right.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 January 2016 source ↗