How the faceless and amoral
world of cyberspace has
created a deeply disturbing
Insight: Olivia (left) and daughter Francesca
Remember that Hilaire Belloc cautionary tale - Matilda told such dreadful lies, it made one gasp and stretch one’s eyes? I used to love it as a child when telling lies was one of the naughtiest things you could do: Matilda ended up getting burned to death.
These days, however, everything has changed and it’s the truths that children tell that make one gasp and stretch one’s eyes.
A couple of years ago, my daughter Francesca, then aged 13, told me about a party she had been to one Saturday night.
In the course of the evening, she came upon one of her friends, also aged 13, performing ______ on a boy in the garden. The boy was standing and videoing the event on his mobile phone....more>>>>>
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