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Geopolitical breakdown: lessons from the history of capitalism
ANDREW MURRAY casts an eye over past upheavals and asks whether the left can find a fire escape before the world goes up in flames
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“WE ARE seeing a simultaneous breakdown in economic and geopolitical orders.”

Thus Gordon Brown, the most interesting of our coterie of eight ex-prime ministers; a low bar to clear for sure.

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