The Iran war has reached a tragic new phase: the fear, killing and upheaval are all normalised | Nesrine Malik

As the world waits for rational outcomes from irrational players, the people being bombed will adjust to the fact that terror is now part of daily life“Humans take a lot of killing,” wrote Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes. As bleak a phrase as it is, McCourt was talking about resilience, how much poverty and abuse a person can withstand and still survive. But the other side of human capacity for pain is how much can be forced upon us and normalised. It is bewildering how war – shocking and intole...