Like many people, I enjoy watching people. There’s a great pleasure in sitting in a café or on a park bench on a sunny afternoon and just watching people pass by. But increasingly, people-watching is becoming suspect, and even criminalised.
The latest and most worrying example is Transport for London’s campaign against what it calls ‘intrusive staring’.
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