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 great education.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 August 2025 source ↗
High self-esteem.
Exactly what my parents left me: the knowledge of the difference between good and bad and right and wrong. Everything else is entirely up to them.
A sense of the world being full of possibility and it being in their hands to make it a better one.
The rest should go to music education, since that’s what made such a difference in my life. I created a charitable trust called the Independent Musicians Charitable
A criminal pathologist. Then I saw a show called Quincy ME and realised I just wanted to play one on TV.
They tend to say it behind my back.
I suspect it hasn’t happened yet.
I don’t want to get into an early death spiral, when you’re scaling down your life unnecessarily because you’ve already been there or done that. I never want to stop adventuring.
Anything by Dostoevsky. I tried!
Insular, creative and mechanically minded.
Nina Riggs, Bear Grylls, Juliet Stevenson, Stephen K Amos, Marcus Mumford, Zack Polanski
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