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One of our department came into the office at break. As she switched on the kettle, she idly said, ‘There’s a school in lockdown in Wales.’
Another trend has crossed the Atlantic and entrenched itself on this side of the herring pond.
We found it hard to believe at first. Of course we did. We (or at any rate I) had laughed a lot at our