So no one’s going to Davos: our guide to the big issues that won’t be tackled

We bring you Not the World Economic Forum, where monetary hawks fly and bankers explain why China is all right, really

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.

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.