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To the British public generally. They know why.
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Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
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Fran Healy
Scottish musician
If I’m ever out of line, I’m very quick to apologise and try to make amends.
Charlotte Rampling
English actress
I’ve said sorry to the people I have to say sorry to.
Samira Ahmed
British journalist and writer
My maternal grandmother, who lived with us for many years. I was a moody teenager and sometimes impatient and rude. Yet she was the person I feel I’m most like. I really miss her.
Riz Ahmed
British actor and rapper
Some of my teachers. I was a bit of a handful as a kid. They were just trying to do their job and I made it very difficult.
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I’m sure it’s a cliché but I’d like to see as many of my friends and family as possible in that day. So I’d have my family around, I’d have my friends around, just to clock in with them.
A lawyer. I did work experience and was sent to the public gallery at the high court. The man in the dock was a 50-year-old accused of buggering a cat on the Metropolitan line. I decided to become a musician instead.
I put out a song called Monsters on my last album, about my father’s illness – he had stage four chronic kidney disease – and a handful of people offered him a new kidney. People’s kindness really touched me.
If my children could change their own nappies.
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