HEROES MY CAT

of the week are surely the four squaddies of the Mercian Regiment in Helmand Province who engaged a solicitor to get their interpreter out of Kabul where he, his wife and two young daughters had been hiding in a basement since we abandoned them. ‘Abdul’, not his real name, broke the Taliban’s codes, identifying snipers and saving British lives. All he wants now he’s in the UK is to get a job, saying humbly: ‘Hopefully I can learn new skills and work in dishwashing, maybe a shop, I really don’t mind.’