Since air travel was largely locked down to curb the spread of coronavirus, the UK military has airlifted personnel to at least six countries that have banned British travellers or flights — potentially moving thousands of troops.
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The UK will spend over £350bn on extravagant military projects while failing to ensure national health security
New analysis shows that Britain plans to spend hundreds of billions of pounds on expensive military projects while the UK’s under-funded public health system struggles to address pandemics such as Covid-19.
Coronavirus exposes who Britain’s national security industry is designed to protect – not the public
The British government has long been aware of the looming inevitability of an imminent pandemic flu crisis. Yet coronavirus starkly illustrates how outmoded and dangerous the UK establishment’s national security paradigm really is.
UK could double supply of medical ventilators with money spent on foreign military bases
Exclusive: British army earns money recruiting police for Singapore in ‘bizarre’ colonial-era scheme
Explainer: Is the UK a rogue state? 17 British policies violating domestic or international law
EXCLUSIVE: Britain uses vast swathes of one of the world’s most biodiverse countries for military training — and pays nothing
The British army is using one-sixth of Belize’s total landmass for jungle warfare training after gaining access to more than a dozen sites across the former UK colony in Central America, it can be revealed.
New Argentine government will step up demands to UK over Falklands, says top official
Explainer: British collusion in Northern Ireland’s dirty war
