Suzanne Harrington: The Taliban are propelling women and girls back to the Dark Ages

"You don’t need to be a sociologist, anthropologist, or any other kind of ologist to work out that skewed sex ratios result in grave social imbalance"

“If you ever feel useless, remember it took 20 years, trillions of dollars and four US presidents to replace the Taliban with the Taliban,” posted some wag on Facebook, which I have shamelessly nicked for its neat summation.

It would be funny if it weren’t so utterly bloody awful; a whole generation of women and girls being forcibly propelled back to the Dark Ages, as countries like the US and UK bicker and capitulate.