Its been a while since I asked what any of this has to do with the artistic merit of the BBC commissioned piece of work based on "oh What a Lovely War."

There again, the minute I saw it, I knew two things.

Before long, the usual suspects will have turned it into a sycophantic defence of the lessons we should have learned, claiming there was nothing done wrong to learn from.

The names of the two contributors who will scream everything from the colour of the bands around the helmets of military police to how to address an Indian political leader, in order to sanitise the shameful approach of the butcher of The Somme and his rotten crew.