How stands the BBC on Davos, the winter break that says more about you than mere fame ?
"Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World" are gathered in the Swiss ski resort, and one of the starred events of the stellar World Economic Forum programme features, for the international audience, "Lord Tony Hall", interviewing China's first and most famous transgender celebrity, Jin Xing. She started dancing and singing as a child soldier with the Red Army, progressed to ballet, underwent surgery aged 26, and has spread her wings to directing, film and tv - and is sometimes dubbed the Oprah Winfrey of China.
Mishal Husain will also be there - hosting a BBC co-produced session on "Securing a sustainable future for Amazon". I'm sorry, that should read "The Amazon".
Other Brits with sufficient status to feature include James Harding, formerly Director of BBC News - who famously interviewed Kevin Spacey in the Lord Hall slot of 2016. James' emerging Tortoise has helped with a session entitled "How to turn Protest into Progress" - not necessarily a variant on newspaper word games. David Miliband is a panellist for "The Human Cost of an Age of Impunity".
There's 109cm of powder snow on the upper pistes, and all 18 lifts are open.
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