The question
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd’s murder. It took astonishing courage to stand on the pavement in front of those policemen, and we all owe her so much.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2023 source ↗
My wife, Daniela. She is the bringer of joy and clarity, and she is very beautiful.
Barack Obama—just the balls to think he could be president is gangster. People forget that, when he first announced he was running, most black people were for Hillary Clinton. The only person that was laughed at more for a crazy idea was Noah.
David Kinjah, my old coach and mentor in Kenya.
Catherine Corless, who spent her own money to secure birth certificates for the unrecorded dead children of the Tuam mother and baby home.
Last week, while I was wet-wrapping my child’s chronic eczema.
Effervescence in the soul.
Interrupting or talking over people. As a stammerer, I am particularly alert to this.
All my clothes are secondhand, but I did buy a pair of new silver Vivienne Westwood shoes to get married in, which I still have.
Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.
John Cooper Clarke, Ruth Jones, Irvine Welsh, Meg Rosoff, Ronald Harwood, Dawn O'Porter
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