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THE same British army regiment that fired at posters of Jeremy Corbyn was condemned by a court today for defacing photos of black soldiers in its unit with racist graffiti.
Judge Richard Baty at the Central London Employment Tribunal ruled that unidentified members of 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment drew swastikas and the word “n****r” at Merville Barracks in Colchester last January.
The incident came to light in a claim brought by two former paratroopers, South African Nkululeko Zulu and Ugandan Hani Gue, who served with British forces as commonwealth members.
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
In part one of a two-part feature, CONOR BOLLINS asks whether we should be concerned about the Prime Minister’s military recruitment plans
