The question
What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?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.
If people would just follow my rules about how they get around the city.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 February 2026 source ↗
A dog. (I don't have one because we're back and forth over the Atlantic and it would be cruel to leave it.)
Having my family closer.
A family of my own, I guess, though it terrifies me.
This isn’t a complaint, but obscurity would be nice. You can’t have a bad day in public because everyone’s got phones.
Yesterday because I was being paid to do it on stage.
Slow but trying.
An education for my child.
Things I wish I’d done better that day.
Being present where you are.
If you commit to it, you won’t ever stop learning.
Naga Munchetty, Helen Skelton, Penny Lancaster, Paul Merson, kd lang, Corinne Bailey Rae
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