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I meet Muhammad Malik at an upmarket coffee place in Borough Market, not far from London Bridge. We order our drinks – Americano for me, hot chocolate for him – and make polite small talk while we stand and wait. He lives, he says, way out in west London, near Heathrow, but works in Holborn as a financial technology consultant. He spends a lot of time on the Piccadilly Line and punctuality is not always his strong suit. He likes to tell himself that high-quality hot chocolate provides all kinds of health benefits, even though, deep down, he knows he just has a sweet tooth. The barista hands us our mugs and we move to a quiet corner. Malik, who is 29, sits upright and

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