Defence, diversity and disbelief

The Sunday Telegraph on 11 February reported that Britain’s Armed Forces are bending themselves out of shape in order to conform to a woke tyranny of language and behaviour. This comes hard on the heels of a House of Commons Defence Committee report that stated military recruitment and retention was in crisis. Taken together, these accounts have had a predictable response. Pearls have been clutched in Tunbridge Wells, apoplectic majors have turned a deeper shade of varicose purple and respected commentators have declared it the end of the British martial tradition. And they have a point. For t…