The question
What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Less time on my phone.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 September 2025 source ↗
Proportional representation.
Not having my injuries: shoulders, knees and ankles. I did a lot of contact sports as a kid.
A whole ton of money, to solve the problem of keeping the rescued big cats at the reserve safe.
To be able to cycle from my home in Chiswick [west London] to the centre of London on a fully segregated lane.
Lack of empathy.
It was reading out loud, but no longer. (I am dyslexic.) I was encouraged by my husband to do a speech for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which helped me gain my confidence, and the fear disappeared.
I would be less naive.
Trusting someone and being let down.
In a different sense, I’ve helped to try to resuscitate a dead man.
Clearing up someone’s sick – it was on police duty.
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