Sadiq Khan: 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 Sadiq Khan said elsewhere, not written here

I would have had more time with my dad before he passed away.

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

Others on this question

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Noah Harari Israeli historian and philosopher

I would like to come out at 16 or 17, and not 21.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗

Emma Bunton British singer

I would edit my worry, because I suffer from anxiety, which ruins some moments.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗

Kiefer Sutherland British and Canadian actor

I would take things a little slower.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2017 source ↗

Philip Gould Political strategist and pollster; architect of New Labour

When I thought maybe I've just got a few weeks, I thought God this is what they mean by the reckoning. I've got to sort all this stuff out in days. Is it possible to sort out all those things in your past that you'd prefer not to have done? ... But actually by going through the process we've gone through, I think we have. And it's a real blessing to have this time do that.

Recorded Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian, interview at Gould's home in London, 20 September 2011 source ↗