Over the last month, when your Tube carriage doors have opened, how many times have passengers barged into you before you’ve had a chance to get off? On how many bus journeys have you been forced to listen to at least one passenger playing TikToks from their phone? How many times have you asked someone to move to the right on an escalator, or held your tongue in the cinema as someone talked through a film? No, you are not a curmudgeon. is getting ruder — but then, so is everywhere.
