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London Bureau Chief for The Washington Post. I once survived an Afghan winter on potatoes and Power Bars. Retweets are not endorsements.

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  1. Trump’s elevation to the peak of U.S. power could make the U.K.'s already tortuous road to even rougher.

  2. The populist wave that carried Trump to the pinnacle of power didn’t start in the U.S. And it won’t end there.

  3. Behind the business-as-usual facade is a deep anxiety that the global order just fundamentally shifted.

  4. Americans may cringe watching their election. But the world’s reaction has been even more poignant and foreboding.

  5. The British government's plan to trigger an E.U. exit next spring just became much more complicated.

  6. I'll be on Viber today with fellow Post correspondents for a special U.S. election live chat. 11 am EDT/3 pm GMT

  7. John Kerry picked up three awards for global peacemaking in less than 36 hours, including one from

  8. “The political comparison is absolutely apropos. The electoral comparison is not.”

  9. A London-based team would be 3,300 miles from its nearest competitor, the colonial rabble of New England.

  10. The rise of the Pirates: "Things that seem impossible one day might suddenly shift into a possibility the next."

  11. To a string of impossibilities that became reality in 2016, the world may soon add a Pirate-led government in Europe.

  12. “We have a great resource. It’s Scotland’s terrible weather.”

  13. I'll be talking Live on Facebook about the Great British Marmite Crisis of 2016. Join us

  14. Foreign speculators reportedly buying up dwindling supplies.

  15. The two most polarizing subjects in all of Britain are now inextricably linked.

  16. Across Europe, revulsion at Trump but little idea of what to do about him

  17. Trump's only hope in this election is that many Americans have used up their 10 free Washington Post articles for October already

  18. Highly recommend the to any young British journalist who wants to improve their craft in an inspiring, supportive newsroom.

  19. By the end, angry and bleary-eyed Trump supporters were left comparing Julian Assange to "the mean Willy Wonka."

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