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Dottore - give him a break, for *****'s sake! Thinkfloyd's asking for help...

Thinkfloyd - if this is an opinion piece, I don't read where you're stating an opinion. It seems as if you're regurgitating a summary of the article. In opinion pieces, one uses counter-arguments to the writer's argument, and that's not happening here. Please post The Economist article in this thread, if possible, so it can be read in conjunction with what you wrote.

I'll try to give it a look over in about an hour. Hopefully, if it's not too late in the evening, others will chime in.

Your grammar and sentence structure read fine, if not a little simplistic. I found myself sort of "nodding off" as I read; maybe because most of what you wrote was so expository (re. no opinion of your own).