Yeah, I suppose it's all oblox. How can a whole nation go into psychic decline, just because Nokia doesn't dominate the world of phones by quite as much as it wants to?

According to the New York Times (you'll need to register if you follow from our news story to their site) it really has.

I suppose, if the UK could get delusions of grandeur from winning the football World Cup in 1966 and from seeing Sir Francis Chichester sail single-handed around the world...