Global system breakdown has defined all our lives for 13 years. From the banking system’s boom and bust to the rise of a new anti-globalisation, the populist generation of politician and political leader, to the mounting cost of global warming, to the exponentially charged proliferation of a jumping-the-species virus.
There is definitely no sleep till Brooklyn, or for the wicked.
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Robert Peston is ITV's political editor. This text is taken from the 2020 Hugh Cudlipp journalism lecture, which he delivered at City University on Friday night.
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