Compressorstall:
The Daily Mail always wants to sound shocked.
I have no doubt that what the Daily Mail wants is to make money, and does so by pitching its stories in a dramatic way. I don't think it has a monopoly on its desires nor its methods. The fact is that this story is shocking, whether new news or not. Indeed Cs, what you write is shocking. Unless and until we overcome the world weary resignation that nothing is new and nothing shocks, the corruption and incompetence will continue unabated. It has always struck me that the incoming administration has a top priority target in a war on waste, both of money and lives. That target is the corrupt incompetent carbuncle that is the Ministry of Defence which cries out for reform. As far as saving lives are concerned, extracting the Military Aviation Authority from its maw, so that it may be truly separate and independent, is a must. Cue shrieks of thread hijack....