I also really liked his US shows, mainly because they kept his mug off of our own screens
Lol. I find UK shows more sophisticated in general. Which is why James Corden doing well in US makes sense. That said, I generally hate these type of “late night shows”. They’re all a bit too insufferable and self-congratulatory.
Lawyers have told a UK public inquiry panel that SAS troops targeted fighting-age males in Afghanistan
British Special Air Services (SAS) troops may have killed dozens of unarmed civilians in Afghanistan as they allegedly carried out a policy of eliminating “all fighting-age males” while raiding homes between 2010 and 2013, lawyers for families of the victims have told a UK investigative panel, the Guardian newspaper on Sunday.
London-based law firm Leigh Day submitted fresh claims citing at least 30 suspicious incidents that resulted in the deaths of more than 80 Afghans. A public inquiry into alleged war crimes by UK forces in Afghanistan was launched in December, led by Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, who issued a call for evidence from all interested parties in March.
SAS soldiers allegedly targeted young Afghan males encountered during their raids, “regardless of the threat they posed.” One of the troops “personally killed” 35 Afghans during a six-month deployment to the country, according to Leigh Day’s filing.
The killings were typically justified based on claims that the Afghans were armed, but in some incidents, there were more people shot dead than there were weapons found. Senior officers raised concerns at the time that UK troops were showing “a casual disregard for life,” lawyers for the Afghan families said, but military authorities responded with a “wide ranging, multilayered and years-long cover-up.”
The raids of Afghan compounds were carried out in search of Taliban fighters, often at night, during the UK’s deployments to Helmand province, the Guardian said. Earlier reports suggested that there may have been 54 people murdered by a single SAS unit, but lawyers for the families now claim that more troops were involved over a longer period of time than previously thought. The lawyers claimed to have found “credible evidence of a widespread and systematic pattern of unlawful and extrajudicial killings.”
An investigation by military police ended in 2019, when UK defense officials said no evidence of criminal wrongdoing had been found. However, the lawyers claimed that the special forces headquarters deleted “an unknown quantity of data” shortly before police arrived to examine possible evidence, despite having been ordered by investigators not to erase any material stored on their servers.
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How exactly are they going to finance a program like this? The last Type 45 destroyer was built only a decade ago. And they only have 6 of them. Anything larger is going to be unaffordable and it won't make any sense really. They should just fix existing issues with Type 45.
The article then goes on a tangent comparing the British Navy with Japan's. Well there is simply no comparison between both economies.
Well ideally they will get China to pay for it, via income from Australia iron ore exports.
The only way it gets funded is as a multilateral project imo. The Tories will be out in 2025 and Labour's are just the generic tosh an opposition party says (another defence review, a review to cut waste (maybe should look at all these reviews?) and support for veterans). I'll believe this materialises into a program when they actually start kitting out a hull