The arrogance of the neighbourhood lout and bully who, returning home after conviction, is always eying his wife and neighbours and fingering his belt.

Imagine a hulking brute with a long criminal record for rape, murder, robbery, looting, and sadistic torture. Largely owing to the moral and physical exhaustion of his victims and right-thinking opponents he escaped execution and after a short period of inconvenience, is now back at home, living in some comfort and luxury.

To expiate his guilty past he now indiscriminately invites dangerous strangers into his house.

Not content with that, he threatens his former victims that if they do not follow his example, be will force them to.

Am I the only person outside central or eastern Europe who finds utterly abominable this German arrogance, the arrogance of the lout and wife-beater who, returning home after conviction, is always eying his wife and neighbours and fingering his belt?