Why are Goodwin, Farage and Lowe so terrified of me?

What the data on English as an additional language actually shows - and how it’s being distorted into a story of national decline.

Picture by Abu Ayyub - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 from Wikimedia Commons

I have to apologise again. This was supposed to be out yesterday, but I have been completely overwhelmed with new work - getting my head around things and getting used to the pace of things - and have not had time to sit down and do a proper catch up. It’s been a good week, though.

I did…