Antisocial on antisocial behaviour

But before we do that, let's give ourselves a little bit of an evidence base, because...

Obviously, the theme this week is going to be antisocial behaviour, however you define it.

There's been a debate about it for a long, long time now.

And this week, the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, got stuck into it because he announced this new government policy to tackle antisocial behaviour on public transport.

Producer Ellie House is here to help us tie the various strands of the story together.

Hello, Ellie.

Hello.

Yeah, yeah.

It feels like this issue has been coming up in different forms again and again.

for decades where do you want to start in this year though

yeah so we've all heard about the governance new share the carriage not the noise policy which was announced this week so that's cracking down on people playing music out loud on trains and buses and other nuisance behaviors like vaping and littering

can we talk about one of the most annoying things on Can we talk about one of the most annoying things on public transport? You're on a train, maybe you're trying to work, maybe you're reading, maybe you've finally got your child to sleep and

then somebody starts blasting videos

or music from their phone at full volume.

We've all been there.

That's the Prime Minister there on TikTok.

So offenders on buses could face fines up to £100 and on trains penalties could be higher up to £1,000.

And has the government said how all this will be enforced?

Yeah, so it's not down to the bus or train drivers.

It's transport safety officers and the police who will be the ones handing out fines and asking people to turn off their speakers.

And so that's crime as well as antisocial behaviour.

And we'll delve into the overlap of those two a bit later.

We've already touched on it.

There's another transport issue that gets people's goat that you've been looking at.

Yep.