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Davos and democracy
ANDREW MURRAY casts a look, via the pages of the FT, at what the great and not-so-good have been concerned about at the elite Switzerland gathering
PRIVILEGE: The World Economic Forum took place in Davos from January 16-20
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
READERS have probably been anxiously awaiting news from Davos, where the global elite gather annually to discuss how to change the world while leaving everything precisely the same.
The Morning Star failed to receive an invitation again. That may be as well, since the Fighting Fund wouldn’t run to the bar bill, still less the hotel charges.
So we are forced to rely on the Financial Times to advise on the mood among the very rich, the very entitled and the very keen to be seen among the rich and entitled — that’s Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves in the last category.
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