It is now more than a month since a devastating cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover forced the closure of factories in the UK, India , Slovakia and Brazil, said Jasper Jolly in The Guardian . There are finally signs of recovery: the company, which is owned by India’s Tata Group, is preparing for “a very limited restart of production”. Investors seem sanguine about JLR’s ability to ride out the storm: the Indian-listed shares of Tata Motors have “barely been disturbed” by the crisis. But even if an estimated £2.6 billion “cash burn” isn’t existential for JLR, its army of smaller suppliers, employing some 200,000 in Britain, are more exposed.

Many “had little choice but to shut down immediately”, said Sky News . There have been calls for a Covid-style furlough programme to protect worker

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