A nation of curtain twitchersBritain is becoming pettier, nastier and more tediousBack in the days when I was a young, fresh-faced schoolboy, a classmate of mine was struck with a grave disease. He could not stop grassing. Knowing he was about to hear yet more snitching, the Head put his hands over his ears and ordered him to stop. “If you want to have any hope of making any friends, you need to stop grassing. Whilst grassing has long been seen as a shameful and embarrassing practice, it seems that more and more people are taking pride in being a snitch.

Source: Daily Nation August 18, 2023 23:23 UTC