Britain is stumbling into a knockout blow | Letters

We have been punching above our weight for years but our competitors are getting heavier, warns John MarriottI couldn’t agree more with Prof Linda Colley (Britain and the US once ran the world. Now they’re all at sea, 14 June). Since the 1960s an unjustified sense of entitlement has permeated our society from top to bottom. I am sure this played an important role when people voted in last year’s EU referendum.Those of us who have lived and worked abroad for any length of time a