Just before Covid, the little old lady who lived next door to us sold her 3-bedroom house to a Bulgarian couple who had plans to turn it into a house in multiple occupation. In order to maximise revenue they were going to extend it, but then lockdowns hit and they couldn’t get the personnel. They weren’t going to let a little thing like that stop them, so they got on with it anyway, making use of the people who had already rented out existing rooms. They had a chef do the drawings, a warehouse manager lay bricks and another amateur fit windows. It came as no surprise that, without the right people for the job, the rear extension collapsed. This seemed to me to offer a cautionary tale about the emergence of Catholic Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs).