The question

Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

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

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

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

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Esther Rantzen
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Alan Bates, Lord Arbuthnot and Nick Wallis for exposing the Post Office and Fujitsu and, let’s hope, for ensuring everyone is properly compensated.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗

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Björn Ulvaeus Swedish musician
Bill Gates. Not only did he build Microsoft, he went on with his wife to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They support the, in my view, single most important factor in making the world a better place – empowerment of women and girls.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2020 source ↗
Rebecca Front English actress, writer and comedian
Camila Batmanghelidjh, the founder of Kids Company.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2015 source ↗
Paul Theroux American travel writer and novelist
The Buddhist monk Tapa Snim I met in Burma in 2007, all of whose earthly possessions he carried in a small bundle slung on one shoulder.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2013 source ↗
Anne Enright Novelist and short-story writer
Catherine Corless, who spent her own money to secure birth certificates for the unrecorded dead children of the Tuam mother and baby home.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 September 2024 source ↗

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