Separated, but not Solo - Herd Behaviour, Rebekah Wright, Bancroft's School
It’s almost ironic that President Biden’s most exacting challenge is to soothe and heal the rugged breakages in a fractured American society - breakages that fight back - yet it is a mob mentality, one of unity and commonality, that caused an insurrection just fourteen days before his inauguration. Lying in my bed, watching the ferocity, the fanaticism and the consensus burn through the Capitol building as shown in my many news notifications, trumping (pun intended) my usual feed littered by relative Co-vid normalcy, may have been so distressing and so foreign because in the UK ...