Betty Brown really is an obnoxious, entitled, arrogant cow isn’t she? If you don’t recognise that name, Brown is one of the supposed victims of the Horizon Post Office fiasco; she was on the BBC Breakfast program this morning. Of course, we should have every sympathy for anyone caught up in that dreadful saga, but the way the nonagenarian bitch presented herself this morning really wound me up. She was acting as though she had the authority of an elected politician, or as if she knew far more than she clearly did. She had the audacity to attack Angela Rayner, even though she wasn’t asked for her opinion on the subject and it was completely off-topic. She appeared to think that being one of the many victims of this well known scandal had given her the right to say whatever she wanted on national television, and that people had to listen to her because of her great age, giving herself an air of arrogance and entitlement which I found sickening.

By the end of the piece, I had no sympathy for her whatsoever, and thought she should just pay what she clearly owed. I’m afraid, though, that such attitudes of entitlement are becoming ever more common: contemporary culture is developing into one where everyone sees theirself as some kind of victim, whose voice ought to be heard by everyone else. People like Brown are symptomatic of an increasingly entitled, individualistic culture. The way she conducted herself this morning really wound me up, but I’m afraid it’s just a sign of these increasingly fractious times.