Derb comments that he “cannot imagine how patriotic Englishmen feel about this.”
Toby Harnden of the Daily Telegraph gives us a clue:
Embarrassing? You bet. Back in the early 1990s, I served in HMS Cornwall, from which the 15 captives were operating, and so understand a little bit about this. I’ve also spent time in captivity myself, in Zimbabwe, and have been interrogated by insurgents in Iraq and so have some limited insight into what is like to be held against one’s will.
Am I the only one who finds the conduct of the 15 on camera cringeworthy?
More at BritainandAmerica and EU Referendum. While not on this subject specifically, Theodore Dalrymple also says something illuminating here:
When words become the test of virtue, they also become the masks of vice. That is why sanctimony and ruthless self-interest are such powerful allies.