David Smith Court is a housing complex in the suburbs of Reading. One of the five red-brick blocks consists solely of retirement flats with communal lounge and dining area, laundry room, hairdressing salon and gardens (where residents can opt to look after their own patch).
Many of those who live here are in their 70s, 80s, even 90s. So a more unlikely setting for controversy you would be hard-pressed to find.
Yet, as improbable as it may seem, the same frustration and anger fuelling much of the social unrest around Britain is being mirrored, in microcosm, in this genteel Home Counties retreat for the elderly.
The fact that such discontent has spread to David Smith Court at all is in itself, perhaps, a powerful illustration of how much of a mess the country is in.
And, once again, the focus of attention is a migrant.
