From the Independent, more on that defiant Barclays dinner in Davos:
In typically rumbustious form, the guest speaker, Boris Johnson, congratulates Marcus Agius, the Barclays chairman, for defying the mood of austerity by persisting with the dinner, and declares himself one of the last defenders of the free market system left in politics. Wearing his London Mayor's hat, he invites all foreigners to take advantage of the weak pound to buy assets in London, pointing out that a year ago a copy of the Evening Standard cost 50p. Today you could buy the whole thing for the same price, complete with 300 journalists.
He really is the last idealist, in his way. But does he risk looking like a complete anachronism? Anyway, afterwards he went tobogganing. Read on.
