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There is always a lesson to be learnt

The world was in many ways teetering on the breaking point as we left 2019 behind, and were ushered into the new decade. We had departed the 2010s with a rapidly hostile political landscape in the west — as evidenced by internal power struggles in British Politics and the enduring legacy of Brexit. The birth of the “yellow vests” in France, increasingly erratic behaviour from President Trump, surging public upheaval in…