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The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2025 source ↗
The first video game I was in. I was 13 and video games were the world for me, and my character was awful. He had this terrible orange 'fro, his voice was a man's and he was slow and didn't turn well – nothing like me.
At university in the 60s, I thought social justice was going to improve exponentially. How wrong I was.
That after I collected countless signatures on a petition, the Queen's Guard still wear bearskin hats.
That my dad didn't live to let me share my present success with him – we just ran out of time, Pop.
One after the other, thoughts come banging in – and it’s no sleep for you tonight, dearie.
In a Dagenham factory at 6am, picking soldiers’ greatcoats from wars around the world to sell at the market in Chelsea. I smelled like mothballs, and no one would come near me.
Kind, thoughtful and gave damn good advice.
My daughters and granddaughters.
Like you’ve got hot-water bottles all over you.
A Biba dress when I really couldn’t afford it. It was every scrap of my money and I’ve never parted with it.
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