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27/08/2020

The Labour party is finally engaging with a bill that could rewrite the law around prosecutions for actions in war and the derogation from the European Convention on Human Rights in relation to overseas operations.
05/08/2020

Without the political will to face our colonial past and abandon the violent obligations of a junior partnership with the US, decolonising our military seems unlikely, writes Joe Glenton for
Ceasefire magazine.
08/05/2020

On the 75th anniversary of VE Day, we reflect on what happened to the ideas and hopes that flourished after the Second World War, and what we can learn from this for a post-COVID world.
This article was first published in
Peace News.
04/05/2020

We need to tackle coronavirus with a strategy for health, care and solidarity. While military support is useful, there is little place for its approaches and culture during the UK’s Covid-19 response. Yet echoes of the military are starting to sound quite loudly as it seeks to maintain relevance.
26/03/2020

What is the UK military's involvement in the response to the Covid-19 pandemic so far?
14/02/2020

The Army are exploiting adolescent vulnerabilities and utilising crude stereotypes in order to attract record numbers of young recruits. We should be concerned about the gap between the dream sold by these advertising campaigns and the reality of military life.
29/01/2020

Joe Glenton reviews this explosive account of a secret group of mercenaries based on newly declassified documents.
23/12/2019
04/12/2019

A potted analysis of existing positions and manifesto pledges of Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, the major nationalist parties and the Greens.
18/10/2019Schools Week

Schools Week report on the government's continuing attempts to instill more military ethos in schools.