You know what the SAS’s problem is, according to Monica Grenfell, a civil servant who worked at their HQ? They ‘swear all the time,’ she said, which was not acceptable in other workplaces, adding: ‘You can’t go into M&S and say [someone] is a f***ing c***.’  As she put it, ‘there are nasty characters there and nasty characters who really ruled the roost.’

I am not making this up. She really did say it in an interview with the Times. It hasn’t had anything like the attention it needs as an illustration of how far some of our public servants have lost contact with reality. 

I hate to break this to Monica Grenfell, but soldiers of all regiments swear a lot. The SAS have a quite different job from sales assistants in clothes shops. And much though Ms Grenfell may wish this,........

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