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Updated: January 7, 2021, 2:11 pm © Trevor Martin Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The Army recruitment “crisis” in Scotland has been laid bare by new statistics showing the main infantry regiment is under strength by almost a quarter. The Royal Regiment of Scotland – which includes famous battalions such as The Black Watch and The Highlanders – was 489 troops short of its 2,059 personnel “requirement�...

AS FAMILIES contemplate their Christmas arrangements in this most extraordinary of years, many will find it hard to accept that this cannot be like any normal year and that we may not be able to visit our loved ones. But let us remember that this is the 75th anniversary of the repatriation of our Far East Prisoners of War (FEPOW) to Southampton and Liverpool around this time in 1945. Perspective may be able to enlighten our thoughts at this time. When tens of thousands of British and Al...

Christmas 1914, And After Sentimentality about Christmas in Britain is a Victorian legacy that owes much to the influence of Germany. The sense of outrage in December, 1914, at encountering a Christmas tarnished by the ugliness of war was common to both countries. Wars of religion - like civil wars - are commonly considered to be the most merciless, the most cruel, the most destructive. Divine sanction or divine instruction has generally tended to increase this savagery, casting a holy ...