The question
What would you most want to leave your children?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A book of passwords for all the electrical stuff in the house.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗
I don’t have children. I will leave my nieces money because girls need money of their own. Anything to make women independent.
A sense of what really matters.
The best possible understanding of who they are and where they came from.
A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
Not being able to laugh at themselves.
Quiet, sharp, clumsy.
A Pot Noodle on a cold day.
To people who I’ve made a really quick joke about on stage and hurt.
Oh, most days. I can watch a political programme and think, “That sounds a really good point.” Then someone will argue the opposite and I’ll think, “Yeah, he’s got a point as well.” I am constantly sitting on a fence.
Having conversations with young people who you remember being born.
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