The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Passionate, mum, green.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗
You are your best thing.
Sensitive, kind, silly.
Confident, stressed, greedy.
Natural, caring, thoughtful.
Winning the first Green seat in parliament – although that’s cheating, really, as it was very much a collective achievement by the whole party.
A holiday job as a chambermaid at the Scratchwood Travelodge on the M1. The state some people leave their rooms in was a revelation.
Jacinda Ardern, the former New Zealand prime minister – for embodying a different, more compassionate politics.
Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet.
For making a difference.
People remember how you make them feel more than they remember what you say or do.
Jon Snow, Jon Sopel, Rory Stewart, Chris Bryant, Alex Lawther, Stephen Sondheim
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