Global: Davos, An unrealistic view from the mountain

The theme of Davos this year was 'shared norms for the new reality', one of those phrases where the words can be rearranged in any order and remain utterly vacuous, says this article in the London Guardian about the just-concluded World Economic Forum. 'Business leaders, policy leaders and the world's smartest academics had five days in the high Alps to work out what this actually meant. Despite much head scratching not one of them could.'