Well, mainly that the victims in Torture: The Guantanamo Guidebook are undergoing what Jon Snow insists is the real regime for suspected terrorists at Camp Delta. It is anything but amusing. In fact, many of the US military’s techniques not only flout the Geneva Convention but fall within the United Nations definition of torture. Three of the volunteers failed to last 48 hours, and attempted suicides at Guantanamo were averaging two a week until the Pentagon slashed the rate by redefining them as instances of “manipulative self-injurious behaviour”.

Public enemy No 1 is Donald Rumsfeld, whose name pops up more frequently than Captain Hook at a Peter Pan panto. The programme will undoubtedly get trashed by some as bleeding-heart liberalism and a cheap stunt to boot. But Snow insists that there is no evidence that any useful information has been extracted in this way. And, anyway, how can you defend democracy and the rule of law by violating both? Either way, it’s a disturbing cocktail. What was it Germaine Greer said about reality TV and fascist states?

Torture: The Guantanamo Guidebook, Monday, C4, 11.05pm

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