Today's depressing GDP figures paint a picture of a British economy which is flat at best.
But do these official statistics chime with the experience of consumers across the country?
Who cares what language we speak or how we speak it as long as it is not a language speaking of war and violence? Besides, when all languages and culture are peeled away, why would we be afraid of creating a global culture?
"The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies on...