Ivan Little’s review of 2023: Bloodshed of biblical proportions

Political intrigue here, in Edinburgh and over in London put in shade by latest outbreak of violence between two ancient, warring tribes

A child injured in an Israeli air strike last week arrives at the Nasser hospital in the town of Khan Younis

Ivan Little

The year 2023 might well have been filed under the ‘extraordinarily ordinary’ category until 280 days into it.

For it was what happened in the Middle East on October 7 that would ensure the year would go down as one that could never possibly be forgotten.