It’s not woke for an army to look like the society it defends

Shapps’ attack on diversity shows zero understanding of the recruitment challenge

Paul Mason

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Soldiers from the Army Air Corps on exercise last year. Credit: AirTpr David Allen AAC. Source MOD.

It’s been Anti-Woke Week in the UK defence world. Or at least in that part of the defence world that still thinks we’re living in the 1950s.

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Paul Mason

Journalist, writer and film-maker. Author of How To Stop Fascism.