The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?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.
Getting elected with 85% of the vote.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2025 source ↗
Nineteen books. Twenty next year…
Getting up the noses of a handful of truly horrible misogynists.
I haven’t achieved anything of note yet.
People told us Eurovision was like a poisoned chalice – to have been part of an amazing team that worked on changing the attitudes around that is really cool.
Nothing. Tony Benn, one of my favourite politicians, said, “I don’t care where you’ve been, I care where you’re going.”
Those who create the doom.
Catching Covid. I don’t think any of us know what we’re messing with still to this day.
A dog bounding through the grass on a summer’s day chasing a squirrel.
I would say something earnest like stopping the far right, but the truth is nothing keeps me awake at night.
Chlöe Swarbrick who is co-leader of the New Zealand Greens. She’s demonstrating the bold leadership that I look to do every single day.
Caroline Lucas, Jess Phillips, Desmond Tutu, Gloria Steinem, Barack Obama, John Lewis
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