This is stale news, because it comes from the "in fact" bit in the May 2004 issues of Prospect (paper only). But I have only just now noticed it, and it interested me a lot:

Britain is now the only major country in the world where French is the main foreign language taught in schools.

This was apparently in The Times, on April 8th 2004.

So, we are, linguistically, the least Francophobic major nation?

But think about it some more. Everyone else either has English as their first language, or else teaches English as a foreign language. So all that is really being said here is that English as a foreign language is universally more popular than French as a foreign language in all "major" nations (which excludes French ex-colonies), which we all surely knew, plus that Britain takes French more seriously than Australia, the USA, etc., ditto. So, no real proof of British pro-Frenchness. Just a trick of the facts, you might say. It was obvious all along.

That may be it for today. I had grief with my internet connection earlier today, only recently rectified, and am soon out for the evening.