#bekind
In light of the recent suicide of Caroline Flack, Phillipa Smith reflects on the dark side of the media and the need to be kind on and offline
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Shutterstock.com Over the past week a sentiment has been circulating social media: ‘In a world where you can be anything, be kind’. As the name of our magazine, being kind is the mantra we stand by, the backbone of our ethics and the message we try and share with our readers each month. Kindness should be something that fuels all of our actions, the way we treat strangers, our friends and our colleagues. But it seems kindness is no longer our default response – it has become something we need to remind ourselves to do, a trigger to thwart our alternative, perhaps, unkind reply. And there is nowhere else this is more evident than on the internet.