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.
The metabolism I had in my 20s.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2025 source ↗
If emergency train announcements were written up on the information screen. The times I ended up at the wrong destination could easily have been avoided.
I’d like my parents to be alive – I miss them.
A dog, though my husband would prefer a cat.
If someone could answer my emails.
That time I congratulated a waitress on being pregnant.
My first week in New York in 1978, when I was about to start as a writer at Time. And my first week in the south of France after retiring from my job of 25 years as editor of Vanity Fair.
“Didn’t you used to be Graydon Carter?”
Content. Cheerful. Appreciative.
Canadians are trained to say sorry to almost everything and everyone.
My children’s education.
Shaznay Lewis, Victoria Derbyshire, Toyah Willcox, Michael Stipe, Sam Shepard, Eve Ensler
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