The question
What one change would most improve the quality of your daily 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.
Someone to clean my apartment.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
Maybe Kate Moss.
Not scrolling on my phone as much as I do.
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.
Just an instinct, but I think reading more Mark Twain.
I’ve never really had a horrible job – I liked working at restaurants and being a nanny when I wasn’t acting.
In my 20s I was in a show called The Unauthorised Autobiography of Samantha Brown. The actor who played my dad messed up his lines and it made me laugh so hard that I ended up peeing my pants.
A blood clot in my artery when I was 23.
Being alive on Earth is challenging and I like to believe that whatever happens after is filled with peace and ease.
To myself for diminishing my gut feelings until quite recently.
An inability to be authentic.
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