Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.

Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world.

You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty homogeneous, right? They haven't done a really deep dive into a lot of stories of people of color. I don't want to say that there haven't been attempts, and there has been some great product that has come out over the years, but I think in 2016, we're in a world of struggle. It's not just about race, it's also about the LGBT community too and others.