A few weeks ago the headlines were all about the tragic story of Fiona Pilkington, the torment she suffered at the hands of local 'yobs' and the 'national debate' supposedly sparked by her suicide, writes Helen Bonnick.
Phone-ins as well as news programmes invited listeners to broadcast their own experiences of being bullied or feeling intimidated. Was I the only one to feel despair at hearing of responses such as "they'll grow out of it", or "just ignore them and they'll go away". I was just waiting for someone to have said, "it'll harden you up". Have we really not moved on at all in the last 20 years?
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