Schahrazade Halfaoui notes that Western political priorities are a fast-moving feast.
As the saying goes, a week is a long time in politics.
Just over a week ago, the siege of Kobane was headline news and the treatment of Kurdish people by Islamic State militants was top of the news agenda.
Today the Kurds are strangely absent from our screens, yet the slaughter continues unabated. It is now thought to have topped 800.
When Kurdish protestors came from East London to converge on Trafalgar Square, they hoped that Kobane’s high media profile could be converted into decisive military action on the part of the UK government.
‘We are Kobane and Kobane is us!’, cried a young Kurdish girl as she was carried by her father through the demonstration.
But just as the demonstration dispersed, so the plight of the Kurdish people seems to have dropped like a stone down the list of Western government priorities.