The question
What would you most want to leave your children?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A house in west London.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2026 source ↗
Happy memories.
A bushel of self-confidence.
A great education.
A comedian or the guy who drives the little truck around airports that takes old ladies to their gate.
I got sacked from TK Maxx for falling asleep under the coats.
I did say sorry to my mum, for being the way I was when I was a teenager. You become a parent and go, “Oh my God, this is what they were doing.”
Certainty. I also can’t stand it when someone calls you and then says, “Wait, I need to put my headphones in.”
Finding your phone.
Outside my very close-knit group of friends, socially I’m terrible.
Ben Okri, Derek Sivers, David Vélez, Mariella Frostrup, Dervla Kirwan, Clare Bailey Mosley
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