




A city burns, and his first instinct is the oldest sentence in the book about looting. He names the enemy in the streets and designates it a terror organisation. Three words become the whole of his answer, repeated for weeks. He crosses a cleared square on foot and holds a book up in front of a burned church. And he sets the whole thing against a single date.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 259. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
Opening the mailbag…