There’s a house near me that I adore and it came up for sale, and I got to the point of nearly buying it and then pulled out because I’m trying to be sensible.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 January 2026 source ↗
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.
There’s a house near me that I adore and it came up for sale, and I got to the point of nearly buying it and then pulled out because I’m trying to be sensible.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 January 2026 source ↗
Cancel culture: getting stuck on the discourse rather than looking at the system.
I woke up this morning thinking maybe I don’t want to be an actor any more, then I had breakfast and I thought: actually, no, I really like being an actor.
In the first few months of Nubank, I asked everybody to be here by 8:00 a.m. every day. I saw it as a test of people's commitment, and I was pretty rigid about it.
July 2018, when I married my third husband, Roger, after two years of proclaiming that marriage at 76 was stupid.
Chaotic, warm, northern.
As someone who made you think that anything’s possible. I did three marathons in a day once but walking the high-wire at Battersea Park station was the challenge I loved most because I had to master a skill.
To Gorka Márquez, who was my Strictly partner, for not winning the glitterball in 2022.
Getting to the end and thinking that I haven’t laughed enough.
More sleep – my children do not sleep.
My new year resolution is actually to read all the classics and I’m ashamed that I haven’t read everything by the Brontë sisters.
Rory Stewart, Clare Bailey Mosley, Sarah Perry, Juliet Stevenson, Steve Jobs, Tamsin Greig
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