Coming back to the UK from France, where I live in a quiet news blackout for 10 days, often makes me think we are a very weird country. Over there, there are problems and a heated debate in the marketplace about how to survive and solve things. Direct action is acceptable, so fishing boats become the front line, cows block the road and it's all quite exciting really.
Here, we talk up a hard time and really enjoy it . Our papers are miserable, people are stoic about misery, politicians talk tough tosh about misery not being good enough. We live and breathe gloom and doom, love the blame and shame. Good news is no news; we twist our lovely language to make negative nonsense sound as if we are taking positive action.
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