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What do you expect with an orange badge?

Jenni Russell, editor of BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight, kvetches at her treatment in Davos (to understand her riff on badges, look here). She also makes some important points about the Forum’s constricted role. It is a convener, not a decider. It can make grand statements (and it does, often), but it has no way of compelling its business participants to modify their behaviour in any way.

I do think, however, that she underestimates the potential impact of opening minds to other ideas and topics. To my observation, most participants are extraordinarily thirsty to find out in particular about the things of which they know nothing. Jenni’s langlaufing Goldman Sachs man is atypical, and sounds an arrogant sod.

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