Monterey, USA Tuesday – What country, friends, is this? Immigration doesn’t like the look of my visa, the one that entailed queuing twice at the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, the second time in a blizzard. I’m sent to a room where they look backwards and forwards at me, my passport, and the supporting documentation […]
Richard Smith: A Davos diary – an ingenue at the World Economic Forum 2004
Thursday 22 January – 17.19 On the plane from London to Zurich I’m on my way to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, a ski resort in Switzerland. It sounds grand and may turn out to be grand. I imagine rubbing shoulders with Colin Powell, Jack Straw, and the like and […]