This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel with my good colleague Joseph Sternberg. He's in London.

He helps me interpret the London culture. There is this moment, a labor government in power for several years now, more.

And Sir Kirstarmer gets all the attention because he's the

prime minister, but there's a member of labor, Angela Rainer, who's known as Red Rainer. She's

quite spectacular, and I expect to see her at PM someday, perhaps. However, right now, she's

worked up something called the workers' rights, and it includes a banter ban.

Joe, this is quite fantastic in a land where we worship the First Amendment.

But in any event, why are clerks in grocery stores wearing body cams?

Thank you, Joe.

Well, John, this is one of the strange quirks of British life because I think Americans tend to perceive the UK as a very polite country.

And for the most part, it is.

There's a weird problem over here with people behaving in a very abusive manner toward customer service staff.

And I think that's oftentimes it's because the customer service is poor,

not necessarily as a result of the individual employees, but just because you have a very

stodgy corporate mindset here. And the computer often says no when the employee tries to do

something and then the customer gets very frustrated. And so I think that my read on what the labor government is trying to do here is crack down

on this issue of customers yelling at or getting in fights with customer service staff.

But then, of course, they end up writing it in such an expansive way that raises the danger that you're going to have pub landlords policing

the jokes that their customers are telling, in hearing of the staff and that sort of thing.

And I think it's just representative of this deeper cultural problem that the UK has, which

I think is becoming spreading across other parts of the West, too,

where we all just seem to be forgetting how to behave around each other.

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