The question
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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My dog was quite expensive. She’s a Bedlington whippet, named Rafi after Mohammed Rafi, the famous Indian singer. She’s got a boy’s name, but she doesn’t mind.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 July 2021 source ↗
My electric car: it’s a hybrid Cadillac.
Art. I recently bought a Sean Scully painting, I have a Damien Hirst, a Tracey Emin, a Polly Morgan snake and a couple of Jonathan Yeos.
My hybrid car. Not glamorous, not fast, but indispensable.
A 19th-century ebony and cane chair from the Raj period.
Hard work, painful.
Guilt for not being productive enough – ridiculous.
Watching the final episode of Mare Of Easttown.
I am who I am because of that messed-up childhood.
As the billionaire philanthropist Anita Rani, who helped bring education to huge numbers of young women around the world.
The day I passed my driving test, at 17.
John Lewis, Kellie Maloney, John Prescott, Emma Barnett, Rory Stewart, Jeremy Vine
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