This was pathetic, lazy journalism by the Mail on Sunday and The Sunday Times. The golf simulator story appeared in RAF News on Friday: all the Sunday rag journalists have done is re-hashed the story, complete with pictures and quotes, and put a negative spin on it, while also managing to get a load of facts wrong in the process. In the context of the great matters affecting Defence, our country and the world, this is a complete non-story.
My attempt to say as much in the Mail on Sunday comments has not appeared: either their server is remarkably slow or I've been 'moderated'. I won't be bothering to pay for access through the Times' firewall to comment there.