The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Not joining the circus.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2026 source ↗
Liverpool losing the FA Cup final to Wimbledon when I was a kid. It made me cry.
The failure of my party to make the big political breakthrough it deserves.
Many of the so-called celebs I've met.
An angina attack 300 metres below the summit ridge of Everest in 2005, having spent 72 days getting that far.
Last week, when I decided to rewrite the children’s book I’ve been working on.
I can always see two points of view, which makes it hard to have a row.
Safety or alarm, I can never decide which.
An inability to see the other side.
For the words to fly from my fingers as just occasionally they do.
Did I behave in the right way?
Gavin Rossdale, Harriet Walter, Johnny Flynn, Chris Bryant, Hayley Atwell, Jimmy Savile
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