Digested week: prospect of war in Ukraine deserves more than sad face emojis

Russian tanks on the move: like a throwback of second world war visuals accompanied by a column of broken heart emojis. Photograph: Russian defence ministry/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock

Monday

I was at high school during the first Iraq war, when rolling news was a relatively new thing. It was wild to turn on the TV and see a correspondent in a flak jacket, filming the bombing of Baghdad through his hotel window, or standing in front of a chain-link fence by a runway, trying to fill in airtime like it was regular TV.