The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Not standing up to bullies.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 May 2025 source ↗
I was up for Bond and didn’t get it.
It has been in myself, for allowing individuals who I relied on to make important decisions in my life that left me alone to pick up the pieces.
The power of the press.
Sometimes I can have a blind trust.
Throwing up all over the red velvet seats in the House of Lords on a school trip, aged nine.
A ballet dancer.
When I decided that Mavis Staples was right – I don’t need to despise myself.
Bees humming in a tree of blossom.
Nick Cave for his determination to hold a space for public discourse on the deep and difficult and mysterious elements of life.
High-functioning introvert.
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