Theresa May preaches to Davos sinners
Theresa May always takes a pause before speaking. I wonder if it’s something she learnt from her father as he waited for the congregation to settle.
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The Davos business conference has wrapped – the world’s global elite taking to their private jets or the ski slopes after a week of schmoozing and deal-making.
“Twenty five minutes of the speech was a load of very dubious boasting about what he’d done for the American economy and American society.”
Donald Trump’s impeachment is kicking off in Washington, but the President isn’t even there – he’s been here in Davos addressing business leaders, celebs and the odd climate activist.
The big beasts of the international business world are turning up at Davos in Switzerland for this year’s World Economic Forum.
An apology, of sorts, from Donald Trump, and that doesn’t happen often. In a television interview with Piers Morgan, the President said he would apologise for retweeting a series of videos by a British far-right group, insisting he “knew nothing” about them. Mr Trump was speaking from the Swiss resort of Davos, where he’s been…
For the second time in a week, the prime minister has thrown down the gauntlet – this time to business executives attending the world economic forum in Davos.
Theresa May always takes a pause before speaking. I wonder if it’s something she learnt from her father as he waited for the congregation to settle.
There are many on my Twitter stream who find it grotesque that the supposed “masters of the universe” who failed to create a safe financial world order are still on top.
World leaders and the global elite may be debating poverty, hardship and inequality but here in Stoke people are living it, writes Jackie Long from Davos Drive in Staffordshire.
Jackie Long talks to locals in Biddulph about their economic troubles, and whether the leaders at the Davos world economic forum can really help out.
As the great and the good meet in Davos, Switzerland this week, Channel 4 News takes a graphic look at how life at the top compares with life on the ground at Davos Drive, Staffordshire.
Can the elites in Davos help create lasting prosperity, or are most people here stuck with the prospect of falling living standards?
Davos Man is trying to put behind him some six years of financial fear. Doom Davos and Deleveraging Davos have been replaced by Dealmaking Davos. The dust is settling.
The powerful attending the World Economic Forum in Davos must create the impression of action. What they will not do, writes Andrew Simms, is change the system to meet the needs of society.
Heads of state from around the world are meeting in London with business leaders including IMF head Christine Lagarde and Google’s Eric Schmidt on the eve of Friday’s Olympics opening ceremony.