As well as airsound's link above to Howard Wheeldon's response to The Times stories, here's a thoughtful discussion along similar lines from "Sir Humphrey" of the Thin Pinstriped Line blog - he is normally very considered in what he writes and it would seem he is well plugged into UK Defence Procurement at a fairly senior level so what he says is usually well worth reading, even if you don't necessarily agree with him.
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Which version of the Truth to believe?"
Edit. Oh, why
does PPRuNe do that? The link is here, but you need to replace the asterisks with "b l o g s p o t" (without the spaces):
https://thinpinstripedline.********....o-believe.html