Inside the cocoon of an event where the main sponsors don't accept that human caused climate change is even real, the news from Beijing seemed to further outline how rapidly the world could change – whether the coal industry likes it or not.
To them, she well-known and popular, a leader who likes to debate with them.
That is very English, I think.' She likes the English and feels comfortable with them, unlike in Los Angeles, where she does not really feel a part of things.
We've wondered whether Sam Pepper, a YouTube star who likes to be filmed grabbing women's bodies, is simply a misunderstood joker.
No one I speak to likes the word "activist", as Maeve Cohen, from the Post-Crash Economics Society explains to me on the phone: "If you have people who identify as 'activists', then everybody else is a non-activist, who can leave the activities to the activists.
Jürgen Klinsmann famously likes to set his players stiff challenges.
There is a pattern emerging here: Carlyle, a lapsed socialist (his spirit, he has said, all but broken by the 1992 Tory victory), evidently likes his geniuses to come in different shades of troublemaker.
Politically, Greece likes the idea of being part of Europe.
Is Britain the place where the world now likes to do business?
He likes special effects, including Co2 cryogenics "if it's an open stage" and says he wants his audience to "connect with the idea of Fenix rising from fire" through his stage shows.
While Honor Blackman thoroughly enjoys herself at the OM fashion shoot and likes the clothes - the Alexander McQueen shirt, Miu Miu trousers and Banana Republic Oxford bags draw particular praise - she hates shopping for outfits herself.
