The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Infinity. I can’t get my head round it.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 February 2026 source ↗
Foxes making love: it’s a very unsettling sound.
The state of our government and the direction that this crazy person is taking us in.
Things I wish I’d done better that day.
A bad performance.
Football player of the year 4th XI 2002.
Know the things you are responsible for and the things you aren’t.
“I have it on very good authority he’s a complete cunt.”
This morning, in a really great conversation with my dad.
A spirit of generosity.
I don’t care that much about legacy. Within family I do, but not externally.
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