If mother nature was a person, this year’s Power panel could just hand her the top gong and pretty much leave it at that. Climate change-fuelled bushfires of terrifying ferocity, followed by a global pandemic caused by a pathogen visible only with an electron microscope, have, in less than a year, shown us real power.

They have reduced our leaders to followers, forced to respond to events as best they could, rather than shape them. And in that response, be it in politics, business, sport or culture, unseen forces have altered the entrenched power dynamics and structures of decades past.