The question
What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?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.
Removal of fear and anxiety.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 February 2026 source ↗
If you’d asked me last year, I would have said a knee replacement.
A dog. (I don't have one because we're back and forth over the Atlantic and it would be cruel to leave it.)
If emergency train announcements were written up on the information screen. The times I ended up at the wrong destination could easily have been avoided.
A cure for endometriosis.
Friendly, opinionated, hilarious.
Insurance – it’s such a scam.
I didn’t get a part in a TV series for a writer that I’ve always wanted to work with, but I wasn’t right for it, if I’m truly honest.
Not being able to work.
My parents, because I rather slipped from their standards on more than one occasion. And when they got older, I wish I’d been kinder and more tolerant with them.
Learning lines.
Toyah Willcox, Shaznay Lewis, Victoria Derbyshire, Chris O'Dowd, Adrian Dunbar, John Prescott
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