Hosting a business reception at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Prince Andrew makes his first public comments since allegations that a seventeen-year-old woman was forced to have sex with him.
There are many on my Twitter stream who find it grotesque that the supposed “masters of the universe” who failed to create a safe financial world order are still on top.
Jackie Long
World leaders and the global elite may be debating poverty, hardship and inequality but here in Stoke people are living it, writes Jackie Long from Davos Drive in Staffordshire.
Jackie Long talks to locals in Biddulph about their economic troubles, and whether the leaders at the Davos world economic forum can really help out.
As the great and the good meet in Davos, Switzerland this week, Channel 4 News takes a graphic look at how life at the top compares with life on the ground at Davos Drive, Staffordshire.
Staffordshire has for centuries been a powerhouse of manufacturing, but in more recent times became a relic of decline. But there is renaissance in even the oldest crafts, including pottery.
Can the elites in Davos help create lasting prosperity, or are most people here stuck with the prospect of falling living standards?
Davos Man is trying to put behind him some six years of financial fear. Doom Davos and Deleveraging Davos have been replaced by Dealmaking Davos. The dust is settling.
The powerful attending the World Economic Forum in Davos must create the impression of action. What they will not do, writes Andrew Simms, is change the system to meet the needs of society.
If you are part of the army of people condemning Benefits Street without watching it, here are 10 things that you missed and four million people saw.
