The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
An inability to get myself to bed at a reasonable hour.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗
The baby monitor. Followed by my own fake snores.
Anger at people's agenda to control others.
Just crippling existential dread.
Facebook and the need to pee.
I’m not fond of snakes.
Not being able to fend for myself and being a burden to others.
Falling off the stage and on to the pianist during the opening number in the Mother Goose pantomime at the Citizens theatre in Glasgow.
As not being a total bollix.
Hopeful, egalitarian, overweight.
As a young actor, again at the Citizens theatre, I was making an exit and a theatregoer leaned over the balcony and said, “You’re terrible!”
Victoria Pendleton, Louis Walsh, Bianca Jagger, Sandy Powell, Bertie Carvel, Peter Capaldi
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