The question
When did you last change your mind about something important?Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
The exact question was part of every retrieved Vox 9 Questions installment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The US election showed me that I had trapped myself in wishful thinking.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2026 source ↗
I changed my mind on airing my views. Sometimes silence is better.
When I decided that Mavis Staples was right – I don’t need to despise myself.
I’m trying to write my will and I keep changing my mind.
Oh, most days. I can watch a political programme and think, “That sounds a really good point.” Then someone will argue the opposite and I’ll think, “Yeah, he’s got a point as well.” I am constantly sitting on a fence.
Scrappy, quixotic, curious.
On X, I am regularly called a traitor, a fraud, a grifter, a weakling, a narcissist, a coward and a child molester.
Having somebody pull my judo trousers down at a competition when I was seven. And finding I wasn’t wearing any pants.
I become very anxious if I think I’ve hurt someone.
Carelessness of truth and others.
A painting of a man who was killed on the Dutch coast in 1600.
Jon Snow, Desmond Tutu, Chris Bryant, Henry Marsh, Alex Lawther, Esther Freud
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