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The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 March 2026 source ↗
The way I left English cricket. I was scapegoated for the Ashes tour in 2013-14 and there was a bitter battle between the England Cricket Board and me for a few years.
Retiring from playing rugby.
Never to have won the French Open.
When we bought the contaminated oysters and I made the decision to close the Fat Duck, not knowing if I would ever open again.
I have never been able to become an atheist and, even though I know it is completely irrational and cannot be backed up, I think when I die I’m going to glory.
I understand that you lose the register of hearing that enables you to hear crickets, and when I can’t hear crickets in the summer I’ll be really sad.
I’ve a deplorable tendency to become entrenched in my own prejudices: If I dislike an artist, an art form, or an idea (jazz, ballet, certain kinds of fiction) it is extremely difficult to get me to change my mind, and all evidence presented to the contrary will be discarded and very likely mocked. Of course, nobody suffers but me.
Not being loved.
Every single morning the sun comes up and you get to try again.
I’m monstrously judgmental. It’s like talking to the pope.
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