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The appointment of a new Prime Minister in the UK has led to both national and international crises in pronunciation. How do you say Theresa? The national crisis, within the UK, is the problem of whether the second syllable is pronounced 'ree' or 'ray' ('ree' it turns out, for this particular Theresa)...

David Cameron and his house in 'leafy' Holland Park Daily Express Brits sometimes tell me that the problem with American politics is that the system of checks and balances, with the separate executive and legislative branches, means that changes are hard to make. My experience of politics in the...