The Yemen war combines tragedy, hypocrisy and farce with 10,000 casualties, almost 4,000 of them civilians. The Saudis have included in their bombing targets cows, farms and sorghum – which is used for bread or animal fodder – as well as numerous agricultural facilities; funerals and markets are ‘military’ targets. Britain and America help the Saudi onslaughts. Theresa May has failed to say whether civilians in Yemen were killed by British bombs. This war costs Saudi Arabia over £200m a month, but Saudis cannot pay debts to construction companies. There is substantial evidence emerging that the Saudis and their coalition allies are deliberately targeting Yemen’s tiny agricultural sector in a campaign which, if successful, would lead a post-war Yemen not just into starvation but total reliance on food imports for survival. Much of this would undoubtedly come from the very Gulf states which are currently bombing the poor country to bits.