Charles Haddon-Cave

And so why, just hypothetically, why would it? B, that the commander of special forces would feel a propaganda exercise to reassure Whitehall and his bosses that they were taking this seriously needed to happen.

Well, it's on the basis of a series of public challenges to SAS operations in Afghanistan that have led to Haddon Cave and elsewhere.

Yeah.

And we should say, I mean, look, no one in the SAS wants a whitewash.

Everybody I've spoken to about Haddon Cave says that it will probably uncover some pretty difficult material and that has made this a more complicated issue than it might be.

But that doesn't take away the need for a government to stand behind the people that it is asking to go into harm's way.

Every circumstance needs

And so why, just hypothetically, why would it? B, that the commander of special forces would feel a propaganda exercise to reassure Whitehall and his bosses that they were taking this seriously needed to happen.

Well, it's on the basis of a series of public challenges to SAS operations in Afghanistan that have led to Haddon Cave and elsewhere.

Yeah.

And we should say, I mean, look, no one in the SAS wants a whitewash.

Everybody I've spoken to about Haddon Cave says that it will probably uncover some pretty difficult material and that has made this a more complicated issue than it might be.

But that doesn't take away the need for a government to stand behind the people that it is asking to go into harm's way.

Every circumstance needs

years and years after they've been operating in some very nasty theaters of war compared to, say, their American counterparts.

Well, there was much hilarity because a woman who used to work at the base in Hereford had given evidence to this Haddon Cave, Justice Haddon Cave inquiry, which is into their alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.

And this lady rather amusingly had said, had complained about the soldier's language and said, you don't get...

It's words you use quite a lot, Liam, but we won't mention them on Planet Normal.