Fahrenheit 451

She’s a formidable force in global media; former editor of the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Tatler, The Daily Beast and Newsweek. But it is her vantage point as a media influencer and a Hillary Clinton confidante – along with her acerbic tongue and her clear-eyed take on American media and Trump – that makes listening to Tina Brown a real treat.

And she was in superb form as she took the Algebra stage to decode what Trump’s shock election really signalled for America, and for the world at large. There were fascinating firsthand insights into what went down in America this November — from why white educated women voted Trump to why the media misread everything, to what keeps Hillary with Bill Clinton, among others. One of many sobering takeaways of the conversation? Tina’s warning, prescient not just for the US but around the world: “beware of charisma.”

Watch the full session above.