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All being well, in 2015 Labour will return to government and regain control of Britain’s defence policy. Once again the primary threat we face will be from international terrorism – the dangerous, globalised nexus of ideology, networks, and conflict that links wars in...

Last month, the oldest surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain passed away. Flt Lt William Walker, who was shot down and wounded in 1940, died at the age of 99. As a veteran, Flt Lt Walker was helped by the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust, just one of a growing...

The Taliban have reacted to the re-election of Barack Obama: they've made a statement advising the president to accept defeat, leave Afghanistan and focus on America's internal issues. For me, as someone who endured life and torture at the hands of the Taliban as a...

The legacy of the first world war is with us still. Not perhaps the men with shattered bodies and minds selling matches on street corners, or those polishing their medals every November. The generation with first-hand experience of the war has passed, leaving sepia...