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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Camilla Cavendish puts her finger on the key point underlying the crisis... a long-term, British desire for a quick/cheap fix:

'Letting cowboy builders use shoddy materials in schools has been a false economy, yet another sad aspect of the short-termism in which we all — voters, journalists, politicians — conspire'!

There's going to be blame a plenty to spread around!