Anybody who works in frontline mental health services for the NHS.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
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Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd’s murder. It took astonishing courage to stand on the pavement in front of those policemen, and we all owe her so much.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2023 source ↗
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Michelle Obama. Her girls were massive fans of So You Think You Can Dance and we were invited to the White House for the Easter egg hunt. She was even more brilliant than you imagine, and we bonded over a love of Beyoncé.
Clive Myrie
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Your average aid worker, wherever they may be. Any human being doing good by helping others, while putting themselves in harm’s way.
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View profile →Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
All my clothes are secondhand, but I did buy a pair of new silver Vivienne Westwood shoes to get married in, which I still have.
Interrupting or talking over people. As a stammerer, I am particularly alert to this.
Last week, while I was wet-wrapping my child’s chronic eczema.
How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.
To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
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