The upskirting epidemic: ‘who are the perverts engaged in this sort of vulgarity?’

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In MetroTalk: A reader asks who exactly is it perpetrating this crime? (Credits: Getty Images)

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Lock them up: the upskirting epidemic on trains

It sickened me to read about the increase in incidents of upskirting recorded on trains (Metro, Mon).

Who are the perverts engaged in this sort of vulgar behaviour?

Are they the ‘men in dirty raincoats’ brigade who have plagued the streets of our towns and cities for decades?

Or are they a new generation of vile misfits totally lacking a moral compass and respect for women’s dignity?

Whoever they are, they need to be locked up for a lengthy period of time in order to protect the current generation of girls and women from abuse. Al Charlton, via email

This Not Right

On November 25, 2024 Metro launched This Is Not Right, a year-long campaign to address the relentless epidemic of violence against women.

Throughout the year we will be bringing you stories that shine a light on the sheer scale of the epidemic.

With the help of our partners at Women’s Aid, This Is Not Right aims to engage and empower our readers on the issue of violence against women.

You can find more articles here, and if you want to share your story with us, you can send us an email at [email protected].

Read more:

What to do if your loved one is at risk from domestic abuse

Introducing This Is Not Right: Metro’s year-long violence against women campaign

Yvette Cooper’s message to abusers and rapists: The streets don’t belong to you

Remembering the women killed by men in 2024

Stories about violence against women don’t make an impact – this is why

Men – we need your help to end violence against women

A trade war with Trump? Bring it on

Musk OpenAI
Trump announced a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada and an additional 10% against China (Picture: Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP, File)

‘slap tariffs of 50 per cent on all Tesla cars’
Here’s an easy answer for our UK government if Donald Trump threatens us with trade tariffs – slap tariffs of 50 per cent on all Tesla cars and their component parts. David Suszek, Dunoon

Who’s really running out of weapons?

‘Russia might be running out of money and weapons’
Western military analysts are 
‘guessing’ that Vladimir Putin’s Russia might be running out of money and weapons and therefore wants to end the war in Ukraine quickly.

We have to ‘guess’ everything about them whereas, over here, you can read reports of Britain’s decaying warships, shortage of troops and weapons and Ukraine’s shortage of weapons in the newspapers. Cyril, London

Keep the BBC ad-free

‘I hate my programme being interrupted’
Alan (MetroTalk, Tue) is incorrect in saying the BBC should take adverts ‘as the other channels do’. Netflix doesn’t have adverts, if you pay a subscription – which coincidentally is about the same as the BBC licence fee.

I hate my programme being interrupted every 15 minutes and I can only make so many cups of tea or go to the toilet.

Bravo to the BBC for still producing the best TV in the country. It’s the envy of the world, which us why it earns billions of pounds selling its programmes, acting as an advert for everything that’s good about the UK. Please keep the BBC advert-free! Peter, Essex

It wasn’t a collision, it was a allision

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‘An important distinction’
Regarding the catastrophe at sea that left an oil tanker and a cargo ship ablaze off the coast of East Yorkshire (Metro, Tue). The correct definition is important. It was not a ‘collision’ – this is when moving objects strike each other. What happened yesterday was an ‘allision’ – the Stena Immaculate was reported to be stationary when struck by the Solong – an important distinction. Mauro Mazzoni, London

Blocking nature

‘Why they can’t build somewhere else and save nature – and my sanity?’
We are encouraged to grow fruit and vegetables and so that’s what I did – all that lovely sunshine and they kept growing every year… until they built flats blocking the sun. So I tried growing plants in the back garden instead and it worked but Edinburgh council is allowing more flats to be built – cutting off the sunshine again.

There won’t be any more frogs or hedgehogs to see soon. Why they can’t build somewhere else and save nature – and my sanity? Just Thomson, Edinburgh

Just bin it!

Business person is waiting for train and drinking coffee.
Better yet, what happened to carrying reusable coffee cups? (Credits: Getty Images)

‘carry it to the nearest bin’
It’s amazing how easy it is to carry our coffee when we buy it, yet impossible for many to carry it to the nearest bin when they are done. Katie, London

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