In the week that Britain remembers its war dead, we investigate British attitudes to war and those who conduct it.
Gordon Brown apologised for his handwriting in a note of condolence to the grieving mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. Michael White in Westminster says he has been harshly treated.
In the studio, columnist Madeleine Bunting and security editor Richard Norton-Taylor discuss the way war is commemorated, the complex emotions it arouses, and why public support for the campaign in Afghanistan is ebbing away.
Plus Tim Maby hears what people paying their respects at London's Remembrance Field think of conflicts past and present.
