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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People who can’t wait to argue.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
Gossip and backstabbing.
People who can’t read my mind.
People who punch down.
Mental cruelty.
I’d have gone solo sooner.
I never finished The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
I was recently made to feel that it’s my mental health that’s the problem and not the system.
Having no way of earning money.
Most of the people I dated between 23 and 33. It feels crazy to me that I ever thought that I could be anyone’s girlfriend before I figured out the things I’ve now figured out.
On stage at the Brixton Academy on the third night of the residency I did there. I walked out and could not stop crying, some sort of mad relief that it’s all paid off and it’s all been worth it.
Alex Hassell, Adrian Dunbar, Penny Lancaster, Christine Baranski, Bryan Adams, Helen Skelton
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