A powerful call to action, Centrists of the World Unite! shows how liberals of all parties and none can come together in defending the values of liberal civilisation from enemies within and without.

Author Adrian Wooldridge lays out a skilful centrist agenda for today’s problems in an age of extremes, in which populist leaders are setting the agenda, and autocracies are on the march.

As well as reviving social mobility, he proposes that liberals today need to be more critical of big business – particularly if it makes money by manipulating choices and spreading misinformation.

He is the global business columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, and previously worked for the Economist for 32 years.

“Enthralling . . . Wooldridge writes fascinatingly about how liberalism’s founders fought to remove ‘barriers to dynamism’ . . . The book’s focus is how to chart a course for renewal . . . it is a bracing manifesto.”

Economist