The Syrian crisis

Alexander Macpherson-Glasgow reflects on the situation in Syria

by Alexander Macpherson-Glasgow 6th September 2013

‘Between the idea, And the reality, Between the motion, And the act, Falls the Shadow’  TS Eliot, ‘The Hollow Men’  Poison gas has exerted a unique horror in the Western imagination for almost a century – a horror that was seen on celluloid in the science fiction film Things to Come three years before the second world war.