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The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2025 source ↗
My parents. We didn’t realise how absolutely desperate they were when we left Germany, because my father couldn’t earn anything. A letter turned up fairly recently in which he said, “We’ve been through a terrible time because Julia [my mother] never stopped talking about suicide and not just for herself, but to take the children with her.”
Every offended interviewee who thought I was asking hard questions for some personal reason. It’s never personal.
If I’m ever out of line, I’m very quick to apologise and try to make amends.
To Jade, my other half, because I can be hard work sometimes, and he is the most calm and understanding person I’ve ever met.
I’m so tempted to answer serial killer.
Right now, like I have no intention of going anywhere else.
Should talk less.
Younger people being amazed that I know what song they’re listening to.
Through a series of mistakes in write-ups, I’d like to be remembered for something like being Britain’s finest downhill skier or inventing pickled onions.
When I was 16, my dad got drunk at the Oval cricket ground and harangued Sir Garry Sobers, possibly the greatest cricketer of all time, because he didn’t agree with who he’d given as man of the match.
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