Another example: how few foreign authors get translated into English. When there's a Nobel Prize for Literature winner from a small country, British publishers race to get the rights. Meanwhile the laureate will already be available in German, often in Dutch, Scandinavian languages and even French.
Alexander ClarksonIf anything, it is all of England from London to Exeter to Newcastle that suffers from the inherent cultural philistinism of Whitehall and Westminster. British policy processes defined by an awareness of the price of everything and the value of nothing.