De facto it does

De jure, Wales does

Cambridge Dictionary defines official language as:

> the language or one of the languages that is accepted by a country's government, is taught in schools, used in the courts of law, etc.

There is no debate whatsoever that English meets that criteria in the UK

But by that criterion the US also has an official language.

Yes, the de facto language of the US is English.

What's your argument there?

De facto is not the same as official.

Not much of an argument but when it comes to English it is. “Official” as in widely and universally recognised and accepted by government authorities? English in the UK (and US) absolutely is

Though now we’re just descending in to semantics which is not very entertaining

California recognizes Spanish quite a bit, including on official forms like the DMV.

Correct. It’s the defacto.

Indeed, there’s even no official version of English unlike, say, French and Dutch.

That there is no Académie anglaise is a fact which surprises and appalls the French.

The degree to which we do not care what the French think about our lack of an official body overseeing and dictating the language of English can not be accurately described in words. We would have to invent a new unit of measurement to measure it. :)

On Dave's scale, probably a "Shart" https://blogography.com/archives/2019/04/the-dave-scale-of-g...

By that scale it’s “no shits given”

Prescriptivism only gets you so far.