It now emerges that Able Seaman Arthur Batchelor, youngest of those 15 British sailors and marines held by Iran, had his iPod stolen by one of the Iranian guards. On Rum Ration, A British Armed Forces website, an inquiring serviceman wonders: “What I wish to know is why a young lad on a boarding party detail needed to take his iPod? If he listened to The Ride of the Valkyries as he sped towards the target ship, what did he listen to on his trip to Iran?” Suggestions included “Crying” by Don McLean, perhaps?, “Beat Surrender” by The Jam, “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life” from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and “Onward Christian Soldiers.” It occurs to me to wonder whether removal of iPod is a violation of the Geneva Conventions. Must look it up.