Me Included

According to Greg Clark:

"As well as Shakespeare, British children might have to struggle through Chinese or Urdu classics. A lot of people might not like that. Me included."

And me. By all means let British children study “Chinese or Urdu classics” once they have mastered Shakespeare (whom they should increasingly be so lucky to get), among many others (whom they are even less likely to encounter).

Let then learn Mandarin or Hindi once they have mastered the ancient and modern languages of the West, the key to the Biblical-Classical synthesis that produced everything we value.

Or are caste, and polygamy, and all the rest equally worthy? And is it just a fluke that science never began anywhere except in Mediaeval Europe, and petered out in the Islamic world?

Of course, if we cannot even be bothered to protect our economy, then we cannot expect, hope, or presumably even want to protect the rest of our civilisation.