The question
What most recently moved you to tears?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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I almost cried last night because of the lack of sleep.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗
23 June last year. The fact that certain people have chosen for us to come out of Europe is one of the saddest, divisive and unthought-through events in my lifetime.
Often when overwhelmed by beauty.
When I left Radio 1: full snotty sobbing on air.
Meeting Richard Ratcliffe outside the Foreign Office during his hunger strike to try to get action to free Nazanin. I’m moved by the loyalty and strength of that couple and their family.
Knowing everyone I love is always going to be healthy.
My grandma, who died a few years ago, because I wasn’t able to see her on my last visit to Georgia.
When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
I am so curious. We had my son christened because there may be a god but, equally, my partner is a science teacher, so I am also completely open to the possibility that nothing happens.
I would have partied a little bit harder in my 20s.
“Your lyrics are rubbish.” It was someone I was working with when I was in my early 20s. It turned out well because I then spent a long time studying and learning how to write good lyrics.
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