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A Manchester Brexit protest ahead of Great Britain’s Conservative Party Conference Oct. 1, 2017, with a caricature of Prime Minister Theresa May clearly visible. The more she catered to the extremists in her party, the more unpopular she became with… — A Manchester Brexit protest ahead of Great Britain’s Conservative Party Conference Oct. 1, 2017, with a caricature of Prime Minister Theresa May clearly visible. The more she catered to the extremists in her party, the more unpopular she became with them and the opposition.

(Theresa) May Day

May 26, 2019

In Jenni Russell’s fine May 24 column for The New York Times, she compares soon-to-be former British Prime Minister Theresa May to the queen at the end of “Game of Thrones” — lost, abandoned, her realm destroyed. I gave up on the series after the first season, finding it misogynistic. Besides, who needs such popular fiction when we have history and current events themselves? After all, we must account God — or, for the atheistic crowd, life — as good a writer as George R.R. Martin, n’est-ce pas?

May’s day: A woman takes the U.K. helm

July 14, 2016

When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, the satirical newspaper The Onion ran an article that said the country was now badly mucked enough to be run by a black man. (Actually, the word The Onion used rhymed with “mucked,” but then I think you knew that.)

To which we might add that the world is now badly mucked up enough – again, still – to be run by women. Tomorrow Theresa May, home secretary of the United Kingdom, will become only the second woman in that country’s history (after Baroness Margaret Thatcher) to become prime minister. Already, she has distinguished herself from Lady Thatcher by announcing that half her cabinet will be made up of women. ...

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