The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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Losing the 1992 general election.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 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.
Not being fluent in another language.
I was brought up Catholic, to believe that marriage is for life. And we failed.
Sometimes it was disappointing not to have the fan base at home in the UK that we had elsewhere.
Brave, naughty, diligent.
The melanoma has returned in your lung.
Zelenskyy for holding out against Putin.
Totalitarianism in Europe.
The Doctor in Doctor Who. I still do.
When I worked out I was gay and decided to leave the church at 29.
Sadiq Khan, Caroline Lucas, Clare Balding, Jesse Jackson, Robert Peston, George H. W. Bush
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