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after a 24hr meeting at Westminster…”a stay of execution.”

When I started my UK travels in early June, I found Europeans not to be particularly clued-in to anything of depth re Trump. They knew they didn’t like him, but he was the US’s problem. A month ago a Scottish woman swore that Putin did not have compromat on Trump, and definitely nothing to do with females. A British man at a bar explained his disdain for the left and its pronoun overuse, while I told him he had “forest for trees” myopia. “I’ve lived in the US. It seems to me your two sides just need to talk to each other.”

Since then, the UK has been on the brink of WWIII and its PM on the verge of being sacked, its royal institution upended. Now It’s rare to go anywhere without hearing Trump’s name.

I’ve marvelled at the transition. We’ve gone from British humor about the Gulf name-change (“In the US we refer to it as ‘El Golfo del Gringo Loco’”) to the possible dismantling of the monarchy.

It’s a fascinating time to be here.