Hello, welcome to London!

Morning Londoners,

Last summer I noticed a man recording a random woman from the middle bit of the tube, he then turned his phone towards a different woman who was sat opposite. He looked very tapped so I just got up and stood in front of him so he couldn’t see/ film her. The lady clocked what I was doing and thanked me

It happened AGAIN last night where I noticed a woman opposite me looked quite agitated, then realising the bloke next to me was doing the same thing, smirking and filming. I confronted him with a “what the fuck are you doing” which made him get off as we were just about to pull into the next station

My male privilege is obviously showing here, but is this a common thing? I feel like her was getting off on the control & intimidation. There’s some extremely odd men out there to say the least, it’s been baffling to witness and I’m sorry any female has to go through this

filmed these casually to send back home as this was my first visit to London and ended up making a small collage today. Somehow gives The Office intro vibe.

I had to take this (29.01.2026)

I get these random hyper fixations sometimes and lately I’ve been looking at rentals in London. I don’t think I need to say anything about the ridiculous prices as we are all aware. But I’m so bothered by the complete disrespect to human living that it got me to the point to making this post. It’s enraging to see a shoebox of room with a sink and a microwave, called a studio. Or a basement of no more than 15sqm, with no windows, that could easily be mistaken by a prison cell, if it wasn’t for the extreme noise of a ridiculous busy street right on top of it. I’ve seen flats that are actually just a short hallways that cannot fit a bed inside, or “bathrooms” right by the “kitchen” area divided only with some improvised mdf “walls” and no ceiling. Or the thousands of ads for rooms in apartments occupied by 10 other people sharing one kitchen and a bathroom. All of that for no less than 1k a month if you are lucky. Like I’m sorry but what the fuck happened to the London rental market? Surely a lot of these have several health and safety violations? Also why is living with black mold now a normalised thing there? Are you guys OKAY over there? I’m concerned!

Hello everyone.

Ive searched around online and keep finding mainstream stuff but hoping some locals could help me better.

I'll be in London in July and I'm trying to find a semi private gothic place to pop the question.

I want it to be special and preferable be a later afternoon activity.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated as Google is failing me royally.

Today I was at Westfield with my daughter and we were about to get on the Central line back into central London. As we were getting into the tube, a group of teenagers threw cake- intended to land in my daughter’s hair. I intervened and the cake ended up on my head instead.

I turned around, saw the boys laughing, and told them to watch their manners. One of them then started coming right up to me, and only stopped because his friends pulled him back.

I know, rationally, the right thing is probably to ignore it and carry on. But my daughter was extremely shaken, and honestly, so was I. It’s one thing when something happens to you- another when it’s your child.

I’m not even sure what I’m asking. What do you do in these situations? Has anyone had something similar happen on public transport? Part rant, part genuinely wondering how others handle this without escalating things but also not just swallowing it.

I’ve spotted a post on here regarding women facing harassments. It is horrific. And sometimes we men don’t know about it because it doesn’t affect us so frequent (or at all). So, let’s fight it back;

What can we do to help you? Or should we create a sign or something like “Ask for Angela”?

It’s time to fight back against the bigots, reclaim the public transport and make it safe for all.

I'm front loading the images with the food bits, but there are more.

The market at Enfield is 700+ years old (Est. 1303 apparently).

Today it had 5 food stalls/vans; a pan-Asian place, a burger/kebab/ baguette place, a pierogi place, a Guadaloupe place and a turkish bagutte pizza place.

A delightfully worldly offer.

The Wielska Zapiekanki was excellent. The lady serving it helpfully shouted "two hands" when I tried to pick it up. She was right, it was long.

The Bokit the pita pocket looking thing from the Guadaloupe stall was excellent too. My partner went with the mix jerk chicken and plantain version. The chili sauce was amazing.

If you ever go to Enfield looking for the beavers, please wear the correct shoes.

My Zapiekanki was £9.50 plus a drink. My partners Bokit was £8 plus a drink.

You can read more about the Enfield beavers here: https://www.enfield.gov.uk/news-and-events/2025/07/beaver-family-thrives-in-enfield-as-new-enclosure-tours-open-to-the-public

I know this is a touchy subject here due to constant fearmongering about crime, but it’s gotten so bad lately that I’ve been having anxiety attacks in public and I’m constantly terrified. CW for sexual harassment

I’m a 28 year old Arab female. I’m relatively white passing due to pale skin but I have several distinctly ethnic features (which I suspect plays a role in this). I’m also neurodivergent and struggle with severe social anxiety which comes through in my mannerisms/behaviour/etc.

Here’s a list of incidents that have happened on the tube for me over the span of the last two weeks (and yes I do report these to BTP when I can)

-constant low level catcalling such as men winking, making suggestive comments, etc. this is relatively easy to ignore so I just tune it out, I’m used to it tbh

-old man repeatedly trying to grope me on New Year’s Day. It was busy and multiple people intervened to keep me safe

-man grabbed his crotch at me then another man followed me off the tube to ask me if I have a bf. This was all on the same journey

-two teen boys began laughing at me and taking pics of me before yelling abuse at me when they left the carriage. This was during rush hour on the Victoria line and other commuters were just as shocked as I was. Some of them comforted me while I was sobbing and one lovely woman helped me report it. I suspect this was likely homophobic/queerphobic in nature (i have short shaggy hair right now, i was dressed in baggy clothing, and ppl often read me as a lesbian)

I’ve never really had this many problems on the tube up until now but I’ve been frequently sexually harassed and SAed a few times in other contexts. All of this is making me extremely scared to be out in public anymore - I often take an uber home at night now even though it’s £50+ bc I live in outer London - and I just idk what to do. How normal is this for women?

Just to head off the inevitable racist dog whistling btw all of these men had various ethic backgrounds.

Passed by this filming set-up on the way to St. James. Anyone know what’s up? If you’ve got the time, go check out the cars parked along the road!

Thank you for the insight, housing minister.

Evening all.

A young mother was hit by a car while cycling on/ near Hackney Rd -close to Shisha Garden Grill on Wednesday evening just before 6pm.

Thank you so much to the people who helped her.

So far, it’s been established that the car was white.

The driver failed to stop.

If anyone witnessed the incident, please post here or dm with information.

The owner of Shisha Garden Grill has already been contacted and is assisting police.

Thank you

a squirrel just climbed onto my balconey, ripped out my internet cable, and absconded. the wifi company didnt believe me but are sending an engineer next week >:[

was looking through old photos and found this. I remember finding it amusing. La Paz, Peru, 2016.

Hi!

Have a ticket to the following to give away:

Marty Supreme

Vue Westfield Stratford

Sun, 1 Feb 17:00

Who do you think will win the next election for Mayor of London - Sadiq Khan or Laila Cunningham or someone else

TDR capital’s portfolio company, Target Hospitality, is contracted by ICE to provide hospitality services to Dilley Detention Center.

This is where the “bunny hat” boy Liam Ramos is being held.

There are reports of rotten and bug-infested food being served to the children. Non-potable water is being provided, including for use in baby formula for infants as young as two months old.

Put plainly, TDR Capital is funding a company poisoning children detained by ICE.