The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A Reform government.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2025 source ↗
Safety of loved ones.
Slugs. And planetary annihilation.
Nuclear holocaust.
Not trying something I really want to do.
Doomscrolling on my phone.
Nothing. Tony Benn, one of my favourite politicians, said, “I don’t care where you’ve been, I care where you’re going.”
I’ve got no kids, but I’d like us to leave a planet for everyone’s children.
I wanted to be in the WWF – the wrestling one, not the wildlife one.
I get trolled on a daily basis so it probably involved my teeth, but that was until I learned to love my teeth.
Getting elected with 85% of the vote.
Nancy Pelosi, Monica Lewinsky, Malala Yousafzai, Caroline Lucas, Keir Starmer, Bob Schieffer
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