The closing session at the World Economic Forum in Davos was by Benjamin Zander. If you ever wondered what a secular sermon would sound like (it was Sunday morning), then it would probably go a little like this.

It’s quite a schtick (72 minutes in all), but when Zander finished there was barely a dry eye in the house*:

*Except your correspondent, introduced by an old college acquaintance as – “the most cynical man I’ve ever met.” I wasn’t supposed to take it as a compliment.