An inventory carried out by the fire service has found that Poland, a country of 38 million people, only has space for 300,000 people in bomb shelters but can accommodate nearly 50 million in publicly available “hiding places” and “places of temporary shelter”, such as metro stations and tunnels. She  has written on issues immigration and Brexit for New Statesman and Prospectmanaging editorAgnieszka Wądołowska is managing editor of Notes from Poland. advisory board memberUNESCO Professor at the Jagiellonian University and Professor Emeritus at University College Londonadvisory board memberProfessor of European Studies at Oxford Universityadvisory board memberProfessor at the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian Universityadvisory board memberExecutive Director of Taube Family Foundationadvisory board memberAssociate Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Science, member of the Polish parliamentsadvisory board memberAuthor, winner of 2018 Nobel Prize in LiteratureauthorSiobhan Doucette is a historian whose work focuses the opposition movement in Communist Poland