And there is a somewhat moist-eyed account of a peace symposium convened by the conductor Daniel Barenboim that called for more European mediation a call in which one cannot help but hear a subconscious lament by the eminent and worldly participants that Jerusalem and Damascus were not more like Vienna and Paris in the first place.
He also called for Daniel Farr, who set up the online petition asking the Department for Transport to "force" First to reduce its charges, to be included in the process.