The Loneliness of the Bullied - and Bully

One might imagine that the victims of bullies are the ones for whom loneliness is a natural consequence. Except it affects all sides of the equation.

I’ve been bullied at school on two continents. After moving to Australia in the mid-1970s, I was sent back to boarding school in England. Despite only being away from England for a couple of years, I was a tanned, seawater-bleached blonde from the antipodes, so fair game for the privileged offspring from wealthy local families, whose fathers were old bo…