In China, Terminal 5 would have been gutted at its opening. Instead people mostly sat around in a depressive way and complained to the occasional camera crews, with spontaneous fits of sobbing when nothing else was happening.
British timidity has a direct influence on UK politics. We put up with a lot of crap we should really be more assertive about.
It's one of the defining characteristics of the British that we don't do riots any more.
We also tend to note that airports are guarded by guys with machine guns. Rioting in such circumstances might have more consequences than usual. Plus, the bars were shut and we don't do riots without lager. keep to the Fen Causeway
It's all showing-off, although of course if you get hit in the teeth with a canon it's quite painful in itself. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
