Rape is rape, whatever your view of the war.To trivialise it is wrong

There is no such thing as a perfect victim, but a million ways to be an imperfect one. She was drinking.

- Gaby Hinsliff

Her skirt was too short. She went willingly back to the footballer's mansion, or up to Harvey Weinstein's hotel suite, so what did she think was going to happen? Maybe she was a teenage runaway or a sex worker; he was a good boy or a much-loved celebrity. There is a long list of reasons rapists get away with it, but it all too often starts with a jury's refusal to listen to a woman they have already decided for some stubborn reason not to like. Remember that, as we come to the distressing picture now emerging of alleged multiple rapes and sexual assaults by Hamas fighters amid the atrocities of 7 October.

Last week, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, finally called for what he described as "numerous accounts of sexual violence during the abhorrent acts of terror by Hamas" to be "vigorously investigated".