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Poor Theresa feels she has been misrepresented by the press (Show respect in Brexit talks, Tusk tells May, 5 May).• Media coverage of French election speeches should have provided an excellent opportunity for us to test our school French and go a little way towards lifting the shame of our national monoglottery.Infuriatingly, however, British TV channels permit us two seconds of French before the measured cadences of the orator are obliterated by an interpreter’s neutral drone.