The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Self-centredness.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 March 2024 source ↗
I am a massive people-pleaser and it brings me nothing but trouble.
Being judgmental.
I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
I cut people off a lot when I talk. It’s a terrible habit.
An all-embracing welfare state.
“You pinko!” by a Tory minister signing off at the end of an interview with me during the EU referendum campaign.
I will let you know when I find out.
Am I enjoying it too much to find out?
When interviewing Idi Amin of Uganda in 1975, he shouted: “We have ways of dealing with people like you.”
I am too ashamed to answer.
Nancy Pelosi, George H. W. Bush, Zack Polanski, Malala Yousafzai, Caroline Lucas, Bill Clinton
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