It was when my lodger, James, stormed into the flat, swearing loudly and
demanding the reintroduction of the death penalty that I guessed something
was wrong. Someone had taken his bike from the racks outside and seemed
unlikely to give it back. This would probably not have happened, I callously
pointed out, if our estate had been a gated community — a proposal James had
scorned when it came up for discussion at the residents’ association.
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