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.
Compulsory headphones for phone users in public.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 November 2025 source ↗
Absence of lower back pain.
Ten more closets: I am a hoarder.
A breakfast show that starts at noon.
To have more time.
Curious, confident, cheerful.
One time an engineer said, “I always forget your frequency is at the same level as a crying baby.” I think he was on to something, because I have been told to shush many times over the years.
Like a very full heart and a flip in my stomach when I see him.
In the Pet Shop Boys song Being Boring they’ve a great line that says “I never dreamed that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be”. And I feel I am, so that’s great.
Three times when I lived in New York, I missed seeing David Bowie in real life by moments.
I think we become stars.
Bobbi Brown, Geoffrey Rush, Edward Enninful, Christopher Hitchens, Louis Walsh, Nick Grimshaw
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