Irvine Welsh
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Like nothing else, I guess.
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Andy Murray
British professional tennis player, 2005–2024
I am happy to sit in silence with my wife and I think that is a good sign – we are just happy being in each other’s company.
Adam Kay
British comedy writer, author, youtuber, comedian and former physician
When my cold toes drain the heat from his warm ones, but he doesn’t mind at all and is happy for our tarsal temperatures to meet in the middle.
Like you’ve got hot-water bottles all over you.
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If my children could change their own nappies.
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.
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.
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