I agree,but I have to say that when I was in New Zealand last year there just didn’t seem to be that general atmosphere of world-weariness and general defeatism we have here.Hard to put your finger on the difference,but people seemed more comfortable in their own skin than we are somehow ( and I just LOVE seeing really old blokes with pony -tails ! )

Which turns most reasonable people into Mr. Mrs. and Ms. Angry.

Someone smashed the wing mirror of my mothers car today. Kind of embarressing that the young people of Britain think that kind of thing is funny. I find it shameful. When I think of things like the Lancaster, Spitfire, Hurricane and Concorde I feel proud to be British but when I think of modern day Britain with crime, teenage yobs etc I feel quite ashamed and wish I could disassociate myself with the UK.

Someone keyed my daughter’s car parked outside her student house – we seem to have become a country where some people think it’s fun to be just plain nasty for the sake of it.