The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Getting to 39 without having a filling in my teeth.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2026 source ↗
Having three great daughters, having been on the radio for nearly 50 years and not being dead.
Founding the Fashion and Textile Museum.
Work-wise, joining the National Theatre when I was 21.
Kyoto, when Tony Blair gave me the opportunity to start the first legislative framework for climate change.
Try not to take yourself too seriously.
Endless vomiting. That comes from my emetophobia, which is a huge part of my OCD.
Congratulating Dua Lipa on managing to release a single in such a tough industry, because I thought she was a struggling indie artist. I Googled her the next day and realised that she has 88 million followers.
Anyone who can pick up a house spider with their bare hands.
Christmas elf at the Rainforest Cafe.
Tenacious, romantic, organised.
Adam Lambert, Chris Bonington, Michelle Dockery, Barack Obama, Jennifer Hudson, Keren Woodward
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