The question
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Anyone who speaks truth to power at the risk of their own safety.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2024 source ↗
Mo Farah represents everything that’s great about our country.
There are far too many to choose.
Sir David Attenborough, John Prendergast.
Nelson Mandela.
Bicycle courier: it was literally dicing with death on a minute-to-minute basis for 12 hours a day. It was terrifying and exhausting.
Self-loathing that rises to the level of deploring.
Your heart walking around outside your body.
Not a child, which was short-sighted of me.
Letting down the people I love.
About five years ago, a half-tonne tree branch fell and missed me by three feet.
Philip Treacy, Danielle Steel, Mary Portas, Candi Staton, Alison Goldfrapp, Gloria Steinem
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