Portmeirion is a surreal place at the best of times. But it gets even stranger when you see Clarence Mitchell, the spokesman for the McCanns taking a stroll through this pink and green mini-utopia, shortly before bumping into Yasmin Alibhai-Brown from the Independent, the historian Simon Schama and Julia Hobsbawn, the mad genius behind this crazy trip.
This bizarre fantasy village on the north Wales coast is best-known as the set for the sixties sci-fi series, The Prisoner. What’s happening here is weirder than that. Two coach loads of journalists, PR folk and business people pitched up here yesterday evening to discuss… well what exactly? How to save capitalism from itself? How to put it out of its misery?
How to find a new way of organising human society? All this while being ferried around in Jaguars and Land Rovers courtesy of the event’s sponsors.
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