He is Chair of Gramercy Fund Management, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and a Financial Times contributing editor. A confrontation in the prime minister’s study climaxed with Brown slamming out of the room so violently that the door lost one of its hinges. Even if such a promise was really made – Blair says not – Brown was oddly naive to think that it was bankable, especially once the other man had won back-to-back landslides. Brown tells us why we must find a way to cooperate – and how it can be done – in a discussion with Jonathan Freedland.

Their topic is the “permacrisis” – an epithet they tell us was chosen as “word of the year” in 2022 by Collins dictionary.

We will have higher standards in public life, a wider spread of power and opportunity, and better economic growth that benefits everyone, wherever they are. Photograph: Martin Argles/The Guardian Tony Blair applauds Gordon Brown’s speech at the 1999 Labour party conference in Bournemouth. He has a comprehensive view of the world that goes from a fair version of an open globalisation and drops down to what’s needed to support individuals. A Member of Parliament between 1983 and 2015, he lives in Fife, Scotland, and is married to Sarah, and the couple have two teenagers.

The party said its centrepiece would involve mass transfer of power from Westminster to the people and their local areas, with Starmer saying “the centre hasn’t delivered”.An explanation of where we’ve gone wrong, and a provocative, inspiring plan to do nothing less than change the world, Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fr actured World, written with Reid Lidow, sets out how we can prevent crises and better manage the future for the benefit of the many and not the few.

Informed by their different perspectives, they sought a common goal: achievable solutions to fix our fractured world.

Then there are those campaigners and intellectuals who get a hearing in such institutions: Greta Thunberg, Steven Pinker, Bill Gates.