News Snapshot:
The purpose of this column is usually fairly clear: to look ahead at the biggest event in the coming week. But this time we are breaking with tradition to bring you the week’s biggest non-event: [Davos](//www.theguardian.com/business/davos) . Every year the great and the good gather in the Swiss Alps at the grandly titled World Economic Forum to give their answers to the big questions. But Covid-19, running now into its fourth calendar year, has [seen it called off again](//www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/20/davos-economic-forum-delayed-until-summer-amid-omicron-fears) . In the absence of a real-life forum this month, the Observer is publishing, as a public service, a summary of...
