Temper outbursts, tantrums and violence, once rarely witnessed in public, are now so commonplace anger feels like an epidemic.
It’s scary.
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Explosive impatience, intolerance and disproportionate reactions of rage to every day frustrations make life in the UK today feel increasingly frightening.
Strangers’ unpredictability is leading to a feeling of fearfulness and vulnerability about how everyday irksome and frustrating situations might be met by others.
Shop customers yelling, even physically assaulting assistants because they can’t find what they want, aggressive drivers ranting and confronting other drivers about a parking space, explosive airline passengers – if people want an aisle seat, book an aisle seat, don’t expect to make someone move by intimidating them by angry shouting.
These reactions are unfathomable to most of us, but perfectly justified to too many.
What has happened to make so many people filled with such rage and comfortable with treating others so terribly?
Tempers have escalated since Covid. People emerged from the pandemic railing at the world and they are getting angrier.
I don’t want to live in a country where intimidation and threat is paramount over negotiation, tolerance and compassion.
Anger, we’re told by psychologists, is a normal reaction to stress. People are super stressed by life.
I get it. We’re all squeezed and anxious by the cost of living. Spiralling costs, mortgages, insurance premiums, the terrifying global situation, our own political situation of insecurity is worrying us all, but not all of us turn on each other at the drop of a hat.
Eating with old friends in London at the weekend, talk turned to how nasty the UK feels today.
As we chatted, my son was being physically attacked when, because of flooding, their London to Norwich terminated at Ipswich.
Ahead of a Norwich City match, they were wearing yellow and green on Ipswich station when a man raged and ran at them for being on Ipswich “territory.”
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He kicked my son in the back of the leg and went to headbutt his friend as the pair crossed the station with my other son and another friend.
Station security called the police as the man, about twice the age of the others, continued to rage, threaten and swear.
Irrational behaviour and violence for violence’s sake that unsettled and worried four young men on a day out.
A friend who is a football referee was verbally attacked and his personal space invaded this week by the father of an under 18-player.
He was subject to a volley of insults, obscenities and profanities about his refereeing by the man and his wife as his young son watched,
He is growing up believing this kind of behaviour is acceptable.
My friend says he is coming under attack so much now by spectators, players and parents that he is seriously considering jacking it in.
Why would anyone put themselves in jeopardy from people who can’t control their tempers and act decently.,
We cannot allow this aggression to take over from respectful communication or the future looks very bleak and depressing.
Shoplifting worries
Highly organised gangs of thieves are stealing high value items to order from supermarkets and stores, according to Waitrose and John Lewis chair Dame Sharon White.
The trend is “profoundly shocking”, she said, with retail crime reaching “epidemic levels”, with the business facing a £12m hit from shoplifting with incidents rising by 25% in the year to June, according to police data for England and Wales released last week.
In the last year stores have seen shoplifting by the desperate escalate to gangs shoplifting to order.
One gang warned staff they would be back to steal a particular brand of gin, which was out of stock.
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Bold as brass, thieves are getting away with it, walking out with armfuls of goods in broad daylight and never challenged because of fear of their reaction.
How have we come to this free for all?
Key part of childhood
One of the highlights of parenting is the primary school nativity play.
I understand why parents at a Norfolk school petitioned the head teacher when their children, who had missed out on the traditional Mary and Joseph play because of Covid, begging him to
let them have their t-towel-on-the head and cotton wool stuck to a vest moment round the manger.
Ryan Freeman, headteacher of Moorlands Church of England Primary Academy in Belton, near Great Yarmouth, told parents that there would be no nativities for children in years three to six as part of the school’s new Christmas itinerary.
He should have let the children vote and decide.
A traditional nativity is a rite of passage that every child – and parent – who wants to should experience.
Support a great cause
The Royal British Legion has done a sterling job eliminating any form of plastic from the poppy in its annual appeal launched yesterday.
It’s taken three years’ planning and development to produce a new poppy made entirely from paper, banishing the green plastic stem to history.
Even better, half of the paper used is offcuts from the production of coffee cups giving it extra sustainability points.
Buy one today.
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