The question
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A dog, though my husband would prefer a cat.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗
The UK voting for us to stay in Europe on 23 June.
My kids doing what I say, when I say.
Having someone to come in every day and tidy my house.
A halter for global mega companies, and the return of community. Throw in an ironing board that does the ironing and a floor that self-cleans.
Totalitarianism in Europe.
Brave, naughty, diligent.
Zelenskyy for holding out against Putin.
I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.
When I worked out I was gay and decided to leave the church at 29.
An earthquake in Peru forced me and a young man into the street, where he had to introduce me to his family at three in the morning.
Albie Sachs, Jon Snow, Samira Ahmed, Caroline Lucas, Keir Starmer, Zack Polanski
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