Let’s get this in proportion. There are 24,413 schools in England, or thereabouts, of which fewer than 150 are closed for a short time because of structural problems relating to a type of concrete that has outlived its safe life.
The Gilberd School was founded in 1912 as The Junior Technical School and in 1957 changed its name to The Gilberd School when girls were admitted. It moved to a new site in the 1970s.
The Shardlake historical (Tudor) whodunnits are as “compulsively gripping” (Sunday Times), “superb” (Independent), “thrilling” (Sunday Telegraph) and “compelling” (Observer) as these plaudits on the cover of Revelation (the fourth in the series) attest.
Why wouldn’t China try to infiltrate the British security services – and those of other countries? I expect China has to a greater or lesser extent been successful in these enterprises. It’s nothing new.
“There is a surplus of books about modern Greece, but this one is the best for many years”, writes a reviewer in the New Statesman in the latter half of the last century.