Not so long ago, I left my phone behind in a taxi late one night. Drink had been taken and it took me a while to notice my loss, by which time the cab in question was many miles away. I phoned my phone more out of form than hope that it wouldn’t already have been re-SIMmed and heading to an exciting new life. To my surprise and delight, a very well-spoken young man picked it up, and invited me to come to collect it the next morning from Walthamstow in east London.
