Woeful 0.3% growth is no cause for jubilation

LET'S not pretend this is good news. The UK's abysmal 0.3% growth rate between April and June has been greeted as better than forecast. This shows just how low people's expectations for this country have become.

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Britain has never regained the ground lost in the 2008 financial crisis. While nations in the Far East deliver amazing infrastructure projects and raise children who can out-compete their international peers in key subjects, the UK is notorious for outrageous energy costs, its failure to build houses and transport links, its inability to secure its borders, an NHS that exists in a perma-crisis and the gross disparities in wealth and opp