MORE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST

As if on cue, a cpolleague who has just returned from a business trip to the Middle East shows me a headline he tore out from a Kuwaiti newspaper...

"KUWAIT GOES EASY ON FAMILY VISAS

Expat women allowed to bring in only disabled husbands."

I kid you not. Could anyone make that up?

Sometimes I think that the middle-eastern view of the world can't be as skewed as everyone says. Perhaps they're misunderstood? Perhaps they just have a very bad PR company? Then you get a headline like that....