Spot on, Em.

When I walk my son to school I see daily examples of parental irresponsibility and "me first, sod the rest of you" behaviour (e.g. the parents who drive their kids the few hundred yards to school and insist in parking in the no parking zone in front of the gates, putting other kids in danger). In his recent book "Adventures on the High Teas", broadcaster and journalist Stuart Maconie argued that when Princess Diana died a cork came out of the bottle and we haven't figured a way of putting it back in yet. This coupled with the legacy of the anti-society ideology of the Thatcher years, which Labour did too little to counter, has left us with a whole raft of society who don't seem to understand the value of community, which has been replaced with officially sanctioned outbreaks of mass emoting...

Thread drift, I know.