When did old-fashioned office politics become bullying?

Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
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‘My name is Mick, and I am an office bully. Before you start booing, I am a victim of office bullies too. Indeed, many people I have worked with could also qualify as both bullies and bullied. And so, quite possibly, could you — at least according to the ever-widening definition of workplace harassment today….’

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