Unlikely meeting of the week - Tony Blair and David Cameron, who teamed up to discuss the Middle East in a cosy little tête-à-tête likely to make blood boil in Downing Street. The Tory leader, who led his MPs in a standing ovation after Mr Blair's last PMQs but who can barely hide his contempt for Gordon in the same arena, caught up with Tony. But, er, you guessed it - Mr Blair had meetings with various ministers in town, including Hilary Benn and John Hutton, but not with Gordon.

Who should be hanging out at the McKinsey party but Chad Hurley, wunderkind founder of YouTube. Seizing her chance, one reporter approached the hippest delegate at Davos clutching her Nokia videophone. But when she advanced towards the bright young thing who brought rubbish home movies to an appreciative public, Chad recoiled in horror. “You're a journalist, I'm not going to do that,” he cried. Chad, relax. It wasn't a happy slapping.

Digby Jones, the ebullient Brummie former CBI chief who now touts Britain plc to the world as Lord Jones and Gordon Brown's Trade Minister, is keeping up the reputation for relentless travel he built while running the employers' organisation. So elusive has his globetrotting made him that it even his boss, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, has trouble tracking him down. At a high-powered Davos lunch, Mr Miliband deliver a mild slap on the wrist. With Lord Jones looking on, he told the captains of Britain's industry he'd been “trying to get a bilateral meeting with Digby Jones for the past six-and-a-half months”. Their appearance in Davos was as near as he'd come to getting hold of him.

Despite his high office as Foreign Secretary, the youthful David Miliband felt like a naughty schoolboy when, while answering tricky questions from Britain's business leaders, Gordon Brown strode into the room. The Prime Minister's arrival left the squirming Foreign Secretary just a little nonplussed as he fended off an awkward demand about taxation of ultra-rich “non-domicile residents”. He quipped that he knew how teachers felt when the schools inspector walked into the classroom.

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