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Fraser Nelson's Davos diary

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30 January 2016

9:00 AM

30 January 2016

9:00 AM

For years, I’ve wondered why so many clever people go to Davos to discuss topics as meaningless as ‘the new global context’ or ‘shared norms for the new reality’. It has always struck me like a massive game of Just A Minute, in which contestants compete on how long they can talk about a theme that makes no sense at all.

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