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Potty mouths in the moral maze

Potty mouths in the moral maze

Should we be concerned that so many people are turning the air blue?

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Melanie Phillips
Jun 17, 2021
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Michael Buerk, chairing the wrangling on the Moral Maze

On this week’s edition of BBC Radio’s Moral Maze, we discussed the morality of swearing.

Research from the British Board of Film Classification suggests that six in ten of us are now comfortable using swear words. One third of us have a greater propensity for profanity than five years ago. Is this …

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