President Jimmy Carter has met exiled Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal during his trip to Syria. As part of his tour of the Middle East, Carter had already met with Hamas representatives in Egypt.

By his own admission Carter is not trying to mediate in the Arab-Israeli conflict, but – and here is the real problem – he does believe peace will not be achieved without talking to Hamas. Carter’s meeting in Egypt with Hamas representatives Mahmud Zahar and Said Siam was met by severe criticism, in fact the meeting was supposed to be held in the Gaza Strip . . . → Read More: Talking to the Enemy

As someone who has been ‘awarded’ the odd parking ticket now and again, I am a little unsure how to receive the new parking regulations which have come into force throughout England. Ruth Kelly, the transport secretary, has suggested that they will be more “motorist friendly”, I should hope so!

In 1993 parking enforcement was taken out of the hands of the police and handed over to local authorities, along with the revenues generated by fines and since then the number of parking tickets has increased at an unbelievable rate, in London alone they went from 3.2m to 5m . . . → Read More: New parking ticket rules – hmmm…