Civilians bombed in Yemen: A blind eye

Our capacity to inflict savagery on each other is a never-ending mystery. Every society, no matter how exceptional it imagines itself, is at one stage or another complicit in the most bestial behaviour.

The Isis suicide car-bomb attack in Kabul in recent days, which left at least 41 people dead and scores wounded, is just one example in an endless stream of atrocity.