The return of the ‘poison pen’ letter; the rise in anonymous abuse and denunciations

The lockdown in 2020 brought out the worst in some people. All over the world, people felt an overwhelming urge to report their neighbours for imagined breaches of regulations. This is just an extension of a trend which has been growing for years, that of hiding behind false identities in order to be unpleasant to other people. ’-response-to-covid-19