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Nº 54 Thursday, 03 September 2026
Opinion

Britain cannot expect young people to serve a country that may prosecute them decades later

Britain cannot expect young people to serve a country that may prosecute them decades later
Sources: GB News

We ask young men and women to join our Armed Forces, obey orders, go where politicians send them and, when necessary, kill Britain's enemies. Then, decades afterwards, we reserve the right to haul them back before lawyers and investigators and judge decisions made in seconds on the battlefield through the very different standards of another age. And then we wonder why we have a recruitment crisis.

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