The question
Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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 ↗
A couple of ex-boyfriends.
My parents, because growing up you think you know more than they do.
Myself. I didn’t know how to protect myself adequately when I was younger, and I think I would have experienced my youth differently if I had.
I pulled a chair away from a girl who was just about to sit down on our second day of primary school. She farted when she hit the floor and everyone laughed.
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.
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.
Anita Rani, Chris Bryant, Louis Theroux, Kellie Maloney, John Prescott, Jon Snow
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