Chris Bryant: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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 said elsewhere, not written here

I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

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Shaun Ryder English singer

The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗

Reggie Yates British actor and media personality

How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2017 source ↗

Belinda Carlisle American singer

I wouldn’t take back the drugs, but there are a few boyfriends that I’d edit out of my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2023 source ↗

Isla Fisher Australian actress

I would have tried that anti-stretch mark cream during pregnancy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2016 source ↗