I’m at a breakfast debate on Cyprus in Brussels, and one of the well-meaning attendees (introducing himself as Belgian, Swiss and European) asks if the negotiators plan to enlist the healing and positive forces of religious leaders in their quest for a solution?

I’m at the same table as a senior Greek Cypriot politician and the Turkish Cypriot presidential advisers, and they all crease up in scornful and disbelieving laughter.

A Quaker asks about scrapping the British bases, and the Cypriots on both sides at my table erupt in applause.

Nice to see unity across the line…