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Critics on both the right and left dislike the Davos jet-set’s virtue signalling, but it does at times result in virtuous actsThere’s just something about corporate chieftains meeting at a ski resort to save the world that seems to get people’s backs up.It could be the jargon – among the buzzwords at last year’s Davos conference was “mattering”, which I’m afraid is a noun. Or it could be the confident attitude of some of the delegates. “It’s pretty extraordinary that we, a select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives, are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet … it’s so, almost extraterrestrial, to think about,” the former US secretary of state John Kerry told the conference last year. Continue reading...