The question
Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Both parents, I’ll write the book someday.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2026 source ↗
To my dad for not making it back to Birmingham to see him while I was in London doing The Streets.
Anyone whose party I said I’d go to and didn’t turn up. I can get quite socially anxious at times.
Any writer who thinks I’ve ruined their work in performance.
Anyone I slept with before the age of 27, because I was a selfish, cold-ass bitch.
There are no more interviews.
People finding out my greatest fear.
Showing up is at least 90% of it.
Wondering why I can’t sleep.
My lack of foreign language skills.
Inability to listen.
Alex Jones, Kate Nash, Charles Collingwood, Matthew Kelly, Katie Melua, Jess Phillips
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