‘It’s a pity that people don’t have to learn another language here’

Familiar, depressing riff from The Times about how the lack of second-language ability among graduates is harming UK business. As the article points out the main way to rectify this is to make languages as a subject compulsory at secondary school level. It will be interesting to see if the new government listens to the business case for languages, particularly when over 60% of UK trade is with Europe.