Monday, 19 June 2017

Anger at the Grenfell Towers fire

There has been a huge and understandable outpouring of anger over the Grenfell Towers fire. Society endlessly struggles with anger, swinging between fear of the harm that anger can do, and fear of the harm that it does to suppress it. The twentieth century became increasingly tolerant of anger, compared to the Victorian period, and I am broadly sympathetic to that. I think the earlier fears of anger were often exaggerated.

In my latest blog, I discuss the anger that has been generated from the horrible incident at Grenfell Towers.