My name is straightforward – one of the most common in Britain until recently, and just eight letters.
Yet I frequently now find I have to spell it out to people.
In London, more than 300 languages are spoken, according to the British Council. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) states that more than four per cent of the capital’s population, around 330,000 people, speak very little or no English at all.
This is increasingly becoming a country without a common culture or even a common language: a country more divided, with more latent potential for conflict, than at any time in modern
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