Rebecca Lucy Taylor: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Rebecca Lucy Taylor said elsewhere, not written here

I’d have gone solo sooner.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

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Philip Gould Political strategist and pollster; architect of New Labour

When I thought maybe I've just got a few weeks, I thought God this is what they mean by the reckoning. I've got to sort all this stuff out in days. Is it possible to sort out all those things in your past that you'd prefer not to have done? ... But actually by going through the process we've gone through, I think we have. And it's a real blessing to have this time do that.

Recorded Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian, interview at Gould's home in London, 20 September 2011 source ↗

Tracey Ullman British and American actress

I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2017 source ↗

Ronnie Wood English rock musician

All the hanging about.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 September 2017 source ↗

Leona Lewis

I would tell myself to stop being such a worrier.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2023 source ↗

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Question When was the last time you changed your mind about something? Change of mind

My mind is changing about being a mum. I got a dog and the way I feel about it is a lot, and I realise maybe I would want to be a mum.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

Question What most recently made you cry? Identity & self

On stage at the Brixton Academy on the third night of the residency I did there. I walked out and could not stop crying, some sort of mad relief that it’s all paid off and it’s all been worth it.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗