The question
If you could revise one chapter of 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.
Fewer night shifts.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 November 2025 source ↗
I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
All the times I was mean to someone.
That I didn’t think I knew everything.
All the hanging about.
In the Pet Shop Boys song Being Boring they’ve a great line that says “I never dreamed that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be”. And I feel I am, so that’s great.
One time an engineer said, “I always forget your frequency is at the same level as a crying baby.” I think he was on to something, because I have been told to shush many times over the years.
Curious, confident, cheerful.
Like a very full heart and a flip in my stomach when I see him.
Compulsory headphones for phone users in public.
Too high an expectation of others and myself.
Adam Lambert, Greg James, Chris Bonington, Carlos Acosta, Kelsey Grammer, Michelle Dockery
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