According to the preliminary program, there's a lecture on Mexican pre-Hispanic civilizations and a talk by Slim himself on the restoration of Mexico City's historical center--for which Slim has been reportedly footing the bill.

FORBES: Secret Meeting Of Latin American Billionaires

In his recent Keir Hardie lecture (named after Labour's first leader) David Miliband evoked his party's pre-war tradition of mutual guilds and moral seriousness, rather than the mix of Fabian statism and cultural relativism that has prevailed since.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot