Laura Kenny: 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 Laura Kenny said elsewhere, not written here

I would have spent every single day with my sister before she left to live in New Zealand. At my wedding, it was the first time I had seen her in two and a half years.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗

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Bill Bailey Comedian and musician

A bilious green suit springs to mind.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 October 2016 source ↗

Russell Howard British comedian and presenter

I wouldn’t lose my virginity at an army camp and then roll over on to an ants’ nest.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2020 source ↗

Siri Hustvedt American novelist, essayist, poet

I would have articulated aloud the comments I too often suppressed out of deference to arrogant, condescending, sexist bores.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2017 source ↗

David Harewood British actor and presenter

I would have had a bit more belief in myself: I would have reached for America sooner.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2019 source ↗