The question
Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
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My maternal grandmother, who lived with us for many years. I was a moody teenager and sometimes impatient and rude. Yet she was the person I feel I’m most like. I really miss her.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 January 2022 source ↗
My father because I was 12 when he passed and I blamed him for everything in my parents’ marriage. Now I realise he did the best he could and was just figuring life out like everybody else.
To my father, for the time that was lost when we weren’t getting along. We were able to reconcile a few months before he passed away five years ago.
Any writer who thinks I’ve ruined their work in performance.
To my brother. When he was a small boy, I made him urinate on an electric fence to see if liquid could really transmit electricity.
On stage, interviewing one of my heroes, Paul McCartney, at the Royal Festival Hall last November.
A 50-metre lido that was always empty when I went.
Meeting Richard Ratcliffe outside the Foreign Office during his hunger strike to try to get action to free Nazanin. I’m moved by the loyalty and strength of that couple and their family.
When I was a 26-year-old news correspondent, the head of BBC news gathering, Chris Cramer, refused to let me take up a six-month attachment on the foreign affairs programme Correspondent. He said: “I think it’s too soon; you could do it later.” He’d never have said that to a man.
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