Stranger still, was the fact that thefirsttime I sat on a tube train, many of the passengers seemed to be totally oblivious to the startling contents at the front of these papers, and were reading them backwards - starting with the sport pages, not even reading the pages where an attempt at telling the news might be.
At the moment some peak time services have empty seats on them while thefirst off-peak train is extremely over-crowded as passengers wait for the cheaper fares.
Critics deplored newspaper tabloids, which catered to first-generation immigrants learning the language and time-pressed laborers grabbing a few minutes to read lurid headlines onthetrain.