Surely you are not judging the whole nation of Britain on the basis of ‘the Guardian’s’ editorial line? This newspaper has an average readership of about 200,000 (in a population of over 65 million) and since the launch of its website, the Guardian has almost as many American readers of its online section as it does British and is widely expected to overtake in the years to come...
And what is more, the people who read the Guardian online will be the ones best able to fully contribute to its well known problems with English spelling and grammar.