Party Director Davies Phones It In

LSE Director Howard Davies is a man of many talents – we’ve seen him chiming in at quiz nights, singing songs at cultural shows and cracking jokes at the UGM – but one of his greatest skills appears to be keeping himself in the public eye. Besides writing book reviews and chairing the Booker prize, it appears that Mr Davies also pens a regular monthly column for Management Today magazine (I know, it sounds terribly exciting). Sadly, however, it looks like this month Davies has really phoned it in, with his column focusing on a recap of the parties of the World Economic Forum at Davos.

You may recall that Davies showed off his new media credentials at Davos by keeping a blog for the FT during the conference. Although we chuckled a bit at some of what he wrote, at least we couldn’t criticize his work for its timing – the event was going on around him as he mused about the impact of the losses at Societe Generale or whatever.  But now more than a month has passed. Is a column about how Turkey hosted a party with whirling dervishes dancing on a covered pool or a report on the pots of foie gras that he consumed at exclusive parties really timely? Oh well, at least he’s secured his invitations for next years crop of corporate parties.