Review: Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking by Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles

These days (a phrase that suggests an oldie harping back to a non-existent golden era!) it seems outrage is being commercialised. Clickbait use targeted headlines to raise the emotions – emotional topics are more likely to be shared, and get more eyes on those all important ads. But this has always been the case – Fleet Street had the rule, “If it bleeds, it leads” long before the internet – outrage sold newspapers too.

Dotty makes good points that if people get outraged over everything, even...