Interesting Hardtalk on the Beeb news channel tonight, in which Stephen Sackur interrogated Khaled Meshaal for half an hour (it will be on iPlayer soon). There was much talk of getting Israel to shift its position, an open appeal to Obama, regret at the rift between Hamas and Syria (you could hardly disagree) and the potential rift with Iran, and plenty of hopeful-sounding talk of reconciliation with Fatah. What was absent was any talk of wiping Israel off the map.

Yeah, yeah, I know. But don't spout off about it until you've watched it, right?