Edwina Currie: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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

Recorded Edwina Currie said elsewhere, not written here

I would be richer, I’d have beaten Mrs Thatcher’s ban on women in the cabinet, and I would be a dame.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 June 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

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Patrisse Khan-Cullors American artist and activist

My mentally ill brother going to juvenile hall when he was 14. It led to his incarceration from 14 to almost 40.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 March 2018 source ↗

Tim Minchin Australian musician, writer, actor and comedian

I’d take back some dumb shit I said when I had no audience and found that being shocking made people laugh.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2020 source ↗

David Harewood British actor and presenter

I would have had a bit more belief in myself: I would have reached for America sooner.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2019 source ↗

Björn Ulvaeus Swedish musician

My surname. You have no idea how many versions I’ve read and heard. It was especially irritating during my Abba years. You can imagine someone calling our hotel and saying: “I’d like to speak to one of the guys in Abba.” Who do you think the receptionist called, Andersson or Ulvaeus?

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2020 source ↗