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 ↗
Finding something that I love doing and getting paid for it.
Being a parent.
Quitting smoking.
Making films exactly how I wanted.
Those who create the doom.
I would say something earnest like stopping the far right, but the truth is nothing keeps me awake at night.
Doomscrolling on my phone.
I’ve got no kids, but I’d like us to leave a planet for everyone’s children.
Nothing. Tony Benn, one of my favourite politicians, said, “I don’t care where you’ve been, I care where you’re going.”
I wanted to be in the WWF – the wrestling one, not the wildlife one.
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