Helen Mirren: "Britain has become a rude, bitter and angry nation"?

You only have to look at any similar site or blog based in the USA to see they are in a far worse state. Many people cannot write anything without using four words all of which are connected with excreta. Racist abuse reaches the depths of reciting a single word over and over again; revolting attitudes to women are usual. Pointless and useless threats are made. This is a society at war with the world, frightened, unable to understand what is going on or accept what the world actually is. Inasmuch as many young people - and some older ones too - live to admire and imitate everything from the USA as more exciting and relevant than anything in Britain, Helen Mirren's quotation is likely to be applicable to many.