Mike Skinner: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit 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 Mike Skinner said elsewhere, not written here

I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

Others on this question

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Rosanna Arquette American actress

I would have skipped the time my daughter was nine to 13, when I was in a toxic relationship.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2021 source ↗

Kim Wilde English pop singer

There are several boyfriends I wish our paths had not crossed.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2019 source ↗

Tuppence Middleton

I’d swap out a few boyfriends.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2026 source ↗

Steve Pemberton British actor and comedian

Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗