The BBC documentary on the Falklands war was riveting. For once the BBC put aside woke posturing and allowed the veterans to talk with astonishing and direct honesty. Truly poignant and revealing; those that have experienced warfare are changed for ever. The warmongers among the politicos who sabre rattle have no concept of the reality. From a 19 year old officer bayoneting an opponent to other brutal revelations of the horrors. I enjoyed the laconic para commander who was asked whether he felt sorry for the defeated and captured Argentinians. ‘Not really...pause...actually I thought they were just f/wits!’ A friend of a very good friend of mine was a Falklands SH pilot (not the correspondent here). He said that he refused to go to a reception with Thatcher on return as he was exhausted and did not enjoy the juxtaposition of the jingoism compared to the reality. One of the best and searingly honest documentaries I have seen in a long time.