The wrong silence: Sanjive Mahandru’s Thought for the Week

‘I felt the girl’s pain and discomfort.’

by Sanjive Mahandru 3rd July 2026

I was on the Chiltern train to London, and we were packed in like sardines. Then three or four football fans got on, and started teasing a young girl – not in a sexual way, but by putting her down. Either way it wasn’t right!