The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
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Trying to exercise authority over one.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗
People who are not self-aware.
To be dishonest. Sometimes people have to be dishonest in order not to hurt, but if someone is basically dishonest, that is a different matter.
Trying too hard to be funny.
Self-importance, arrogance.
Recently, as people began to understand what I am trying to do in my painting.
A detective. Or a writer. Or a poet.
Picking up RAF pilots’ parachute packs and gear they dropped off in a pile.
I hope I’ll find my mother and father in heaven. Only my father would probably say, “You can’t come and live here, boy!”
My work. What shape will it take?
In 2001, when my eldest son died.
Robert De Niro, Andrea Bocelli, Leona Lewis, Mark Bonnar, Allison Janney, Nigel Havers
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