Just to keep track of the buzz building up ahead of State of Play, these are the people I’d like to meet / am scheduled to meet: Joshua Fouts, Director of the Center for Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California….

I arrived in time for registration at the Marina Mandarin hotel, but learnt that members of the press, as well as ‘locals’, would only get their name tags tomorrow. That felt strange, some of us going around without name tags….