British women are among the angriest in Europe. Well, what’s wrong with that? | Emma Brockes

A new survey seems to correlate anger with being unhappy – but it can be an energising and frankly entertaining emotion too A while ago, to amuse myself, I ran a search through my text archive for the phrase “I can’t stand it”, which delivered pages and pages of returns. Some recent things I can’t stand, in no particular order: the phrase “clutching her pearls”; a very obviously made-up anecdote in a big profile in a major magazine; someone’s passive aggressive use of the word “anyway” in an ...

By Emma Brockes