A friend was asking about the Eurostar the other night, as I had been on it last week. He said he was going to visit the war graves.

There you go. Despite the attempts by Hastings, Gove and other hacks to say otherwise, there are still huge numbers of dead people.

Perhaps Gove could take a leaf out of The Dept of Health's book with healthcare regulation. The regs are all outcome based. Apply that to this situation and an inspector would conclude the following;

"Yes, I have reviewed your evidence to say the men were well led and knew what they were letting themselves in for, but the outcome is that they are dead. Lots of them dead in fact. If your evidence of process was robust, there wouldn't be so many dead.

I am issuing a compliance action for gross incompetence, served on the armed forces and politicians of the day, and express no confidence in the cover up being attempted by present incumbents. Even worse, a few shallow members of the public are believing your shit, and that will never do."