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Mark Andrews on how to humiliate fare dodgers, cracking down on shoplifting, and a lawyer who's all talk and no trousers

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02.06.2025

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news

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The shy and retiring creature that is Robert Jenrick has set the cat among the pigeons with his videos where he confronts fare dodgers, litter louts and other assorted low-life as they go about their misdemeanours.

Ok, we're not exactly talking The Cook Report, and people are inevitably questioning his motives. But as far as I'm concerned, anyone who brings a bit of shame on these self-centred individuals is doing us all a public service.

According to Transport for London's own figures, one in 20 passengers on the London Underground does so without paying, and it wouldn't be a great surprise if that figure was reflected across the public transport system. One ticket inspector has said that the worst part is the way the offenders just smile at him as push their way through.

It doesn't help, of course, that so many rail ticket offices have closed, and some of these people may genuinely have been physically unable to buy a ticket. But the zeal with which local........

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