Premium: Boris may be wowing the world, but has lost the confidence of his own people

This newsletter takes a break next week because of my attendance at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos – postponed from January. The WEF is NOT the group-think, world controlling evil organisation as portrayed by fake news purveyors and their useful idiots. The event is simply a supercharged example of the network effect – get enough business and political movers and shakers in one place at one time and their peers also want to be among those 2 000 fortunate participants. 

Already confirmed among my engagements are in-person meetings with numerous front-line Ukrainians including the mayor of Kyiv; plus the top team at Meta and CTO of Tether. An impossibility for someone in my line of work who is based in Jhb. So the priority next week is to share what I'm learning and help colleague Mike Appel update our tribe. Visit Biznews.com often.

These past few days in London have been eye opening. From a distance, UK prime minister Boris Johnson appears to be doing a good job. Not so, I've discovered within inner sanctums of this great city. The Winston Churchill wanna-be is deeply unpopular among the Brits, especially inside his political party. Peter Kellner's piece for Carnegie aligns with what I've been hearing. Click here to read it. 

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