There is something very British about quiet rage. It is remarkably close to the surface for many of us, yet most of the time we pretend it doesn’t exist at all.
Quiet rage sums up many people’s feelings about the Post Office scandal, the failure of maternity services across the NHS, the infected blood scandal and the fact that our rivers are full of sewage. A great number of us do not take to the streets, or even social media to complain about the unfairness of what went wrong, but we feel the deep injustice and anger that it has been allowed to happen in a country where institutions define so much of who we are.
This is not a party political point – many of these problems have existed in one form or another for years, forged in the fire of previous governments and left to those currently in power, or who will come next, to resolve. But in listing them, and there are many more besides these, it makes you wonder why so many of us remain so quiet in our frustration at the failure of some of the biggest institutions in this country.
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