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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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2012 source ↗
Not winning Celebrity MasterChef. I am still gutted, despite many months of pretending to be fine with it.
Seeing the future die, from Bobby Kennedy to dear friends.
Not winning the Mercury.
Labour losing the 2015 election: we weren’t able to help the people who needed us most.
In college, meeting my wife and then having our first child, and marching together to bring down the walls of Jim Crow.
Joan Bakewell, Jon Sopel, Vince Cable, Anne Robinson, Kellie Maloney, Edwina Currie
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