While the world amuses itself with the marital difficulties of politicians or the latest shiny gadgets, the uprising in Syria has turned into a war of attrition, with battered tower blocks instead of trenches and women and children at the heart of the conflict.Children on the Frontline (22 January) was a film in the Dispatches series by German photojournalist Marcel Mettelsiefen. Concentrating almost entirely on a single family – three girls, a boy and their parents – it reminded us that the damage suffered by children in war zones is not all about shattered limbs and torn flesh. Farah, a cheerful eight-year-old in a red stripy T-shirt of the sort you might buy from Primark, was interviewed at the start of the programme and asked what she liked to do most. “My favourite