The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My interest in Los Angeles.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
Standing up while eating.
I can’t deal with any level of stress.
Whenever I walk past an ice-cream shop, I just can’t not buy an ice-cream.
Sometimes I follow my instincts more than my reason.
The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.
Just. Hanging. On.
My first holy communion, where my trousers were too big for me and fell down, a circumstance which earned me both the instant contempt of the girls and the heightened interest of the priests. That’s just how it was in 1975.
Making people smaller than they are because of something they can’t handle in themselves.
Somebody once told me I was the spitting image of David Cameron.
As a good friend.
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