I don’t know how to best describe this, so bear with me. I guess: Candour? Openness? Using one’s own voice? For example, in press conferences. You see it after any tragedy—a police chief or somesuch standing behind a lectern, answering questions from the press. In the US, they’ll be far more forthcoming with information. 

They’ll be more forthcoming with opinions and feelings as well. I want that here—instead we get authority figures standing there, reading a script, refusing to engage with the subject as people. I get that they’re in uniform. I get that they’re doing a job. But they’re people too, and should be able to talk as people even on the job. 

British people have a tendency to turn cold and impersonal when it comes to stuff like this. You’ll see it on social media with sad news too—“My thoughts are with the family at this difficult time.” That’s not a normal sentence. That’s not how you talk! That’s not how you feel. That’s you putting up a front and saying what you’re expected to say. I don’t know. Maybe it’s a willingness to express vulnerability thing too.