When glee is complacency

I notice some glee and schadenfreude (taking pleasure in the sufferings of others) among many of my friends who are a tad happy that England had been facing riots. Riots, after all, are supposed to happen in India, in Nigeria, in Guyana — not in England, the country imagined for us by P.G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie and Neville Cardus. But before we start taking pleasure in the troubles of Hackney and Birmingham, let’s pause for a minute and look at our own prospects.

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