Kindness in the moral maze

Does our culture now reward being horrible to others?

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A newspaper columnist recently caused outrage by unleashing a volley of insults at Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, which portrayed her as less than human. On BBC Radio’s Moral Maze this week, my colleagues and I discussed whether this was symptomatic of a wider culture which rewards extreme and unkind opinions. Does a newsp…