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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 Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2026 source ↗
Always have final cut
It’s all a gift. So be grateful for every day.
Showing up is at least 90% of it.
You’re going to come up against brick walls in life. You’ve got to go over them, under them, around them, or crash through them, but somehow or other you’ve got to get to the other side.
For the words to fly from my fingers as just occasionally they do.
Sorry is such an underrated word – I use it liberally.
Small, determined, lucky.
Talking about the hardships of my mother’s life – she would not approve.
An inability to see the other side.
My parents died within four days of each other. I was engulfed as I ran from one bedside to another.
Simon Boas, Kelly Hoppen, Shobna Gulati, Caroline Lucas, Paul Kalanithi, Stockard Channing
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