Yet.

Your life, your tin, your choice. I’ve a bauble from Mr Blair’s wars - I sweated my pert little buns to earn it, and whatever the morality of the cause I feel I earned it.

Only if you’re a Siegfried Sassoon wannabe.

I'm happy to be 'a bloke who used to be in the army' (other services are available).

Loving the fact that despite the article being retracted, T&F are still charging $56 for non-institutional access to it ....

I've only ever seen it with men from what now be called the 'traveller community' in the Scottish Highlands.

What, the UK’s now faced with marauding bands of evangelical ‘youth pastors’? Sheesh.

In a proper army a half colonel posting this sort of mince would be treated to 'some quiet words of advice', and shortly thereafter would make his debut on Linkedin touting his leadership and management chops. Or would be announcing his run for a house seat somewhere in MAGAstan.

Canadian devotees of the Robertson screw feeling quietly and politely smug.

" ... Tod was born on March 26 1939 in Pune, India, where his father was serving with the Royal Engineers in Slim’s 14th “Forgotten” Army, who went on to fight the Japanese."

Errrr .... has someone forgotten 14th Army didn't actually exist in 1939?

Might the phrase ‘team of experts’ be doing some heavy lifting there?

Was he channelling Oddball ?

Name the pub - not the Rising Sun, surely?

Dunno about Fred, but his mother came out of a society with a HARD Christian culture which set a high bar on entry to Heaven, and who supposedly lived accordingly (narrator - they didn't). Maybe this is a faint echo of Mary MacLeod's words in the nursery.