Lieutenant-Colonel John Downham, regimental secretary, The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment, said, on the departure of Piers Morgan: “The Regiment has seen off Louis XIV, Napoleon, Kaiser Bill, Hitler and half a dozen other petty tyrants, so I don’t think Piers Morgan is going to be too much of a problem for us.” (Ref BATTLESPACE UPDATE Vol.6 ISSUE 18, 07 May 2004 ‘LEFT WING MEDIA GROUPS PLAY WITH LIVES’) Perhaps he should join BAE SYSTEMS as a consultant in their current spat with the MoD!