India Knight

This terrifying book puts me off going online ever again —except maybe to Ocado — says India Knight

Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed makes for grim but gripping reading

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issue 21 March 2015

Jeremy Clarkson has been getting it in the neck from Twitter’s (I was going to say) tricoteuses — but social media is both thicko mob and gleeful, literal-minded public executioner. A couple of weeks ago it was George Galloway; and the week before that — oh, I can’t remember. I had a theory about 21st-century shame before I read Jon Ronson’s book — namely that it passes quickly.

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