When I worked at Grimethorpe during the 1970's and '80's we had on site an experimental fluidised bed facility. Not a bit of furniture from Ikea, but an international project into burning coal more efficiently to produce electricity. The Company overseeing this had three headquarters worldwide and the banner beneath its coat of arms proudly displayed :-

“DALLAS ; MUNICH ; GRIMETHORPE”

Bear with me on this while I seem to digress now into the area of world religion.

Because it's always seemed to me to be an historic cruelty that three of the world's major religions should have scrapped (and continue to scrap) over their claim to Jerusalem; namely, Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

You might well have had a quiet guffaw up your sleeve at the juxtaposition of Grimethorpe with Dallas and Munich, but would not one aspect at least of Middle East conflict be quietened if those three religions' headquarters had been in, say, New York, Sydney and Bridlington?