Even those who’ve never so much as stepped inside it must surely be wondering what all this tells us about the vulnerability of British institutions generally – the National Cyber Security Centre, a branch of GCHQ, is reported to have been called in – and yet, hardly anyone seems to be talking about it. But then, for a writer – as I am, and many of my friends are, too – this isn’t an abstract situation, and not only because the BL administers the Public Lending Right, a scheme by which authors are paid for library loans of books (payments will be late this year).

Source: The Guardian