"Every time I wrap up a meeting at the British foreign office," a Syrian negotiator told me recently, "they tell me they'll speak to the Americans then get back to me".
(Speaking with friends in New Zealand recently, they tell me that "husband" and "wife" are being used a bit more now, and that's interesting considering New Zealand has also legalized gay marriage).
The rave music megastars have been getting cozy with plenty of pop idols recently, as they told us in a recent interview: "at one point when we were in the studio in London with Rihanna, Drake turned up, Jay-Z was there and Pharrell rolled in to play her some beats.
"We were all at a regatta in Italy recently and they told me how much fun it is, and that I shouldn't pass it up," he said.
But I've spoken to some of the England squad, who played on the same pitches at the Under-20 World Cup in Canada recently, and they told me it did not cause them any problems.
That problem is institutional racism - and a failure to confront it head-on is why several white politicians have received critical reactions recently when they told audiences that "all lives matter".
It turns out that teachers from Spain Elementary-Middle School have been writing for over a year to the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration, but until very recently, they were told that the state did "not plan to conduct an onsite inspection at this time".
I was recently in China, where they told me, with a smirk, about North Korea.
The closest any group has gone to accurately forecasting the rise and rise of green energy is Greenpeace, however they recently told Vox they did not make long term predictions, but decided on the future they desired and created scenarios to fit.
An Apple spokeswoman, Natalie Sequeira, said such decisions were up to the artists, and "in this case they recently told us that they wanted it to be available only as part of the album".
