The Ministry of Defence has announced a new UK-wide study into cancer among serving personnel and veterans who have served since 1990.
The research will use existing NHS records, so no action is required by serving personnel or veterans. Initial findings are expected to be published annually from 2027.
Current evidence suggests that overall cancer rates among Armed Forces personnel
Following the recent AFPRB award and its headline increase of 3.6% for the current year, the 2027/28 armed forces pay round has now begun.
Each year's review process formally begins with a "remit letter" from the Defence Secretary to the Pay Review Body chair.
Mr Jarvis has now issued the 2027/28 remit letter, which thanks the Board chair Julian Miller
According to a recent story in the Telegraph, the Ministry of Defence is still supposed to be rewriting its transgender policy, more than a year after the Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of "woman" in the Equality Act, leaving commanding officers and service personnel uncertain about the applicable rules.
Women’s organisations and campaigners quoted by the paper argue that
Good to see Armed Forces Day being celebrated once again in many places across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, which had "more than a dozen events" from Edinburgh and Glasgow to Thurso and Dumfries.
The fact that Glasgow held (and were always going to hold) an official AFD event is perhaps worth noting in view
A report just released by the National Audit Office says that the Ministry of Defence lost the taxpayer around £14.5 billion over the life of the Annington Homes deal, compared to where we would be if the 1996 deal had never happened.
But there is also praise for the action finally taken by MoD to repurchase more than 36,000 service
Following the resignations of John Healey and Al Carns, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon writes in the Telegraph that Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, who as Chief of the Defence Staff is the professional head of the armed forces, should now "show that he represents British servicemen and women by falling on his sword as well", because –
Given the colossal insult
The resignation of John Healey MP as Defence Secretary marks the end of a period in which, whatever one's political views, Defence had at its head someone who had prepared thoroughly for it in Opposition and, when the time came, did not disappoint.
I haven't met Mr Healey personally, but I've heard him speak a couple of times at RUSI
AFPRB UPDATE: The full AFPRB report and recommendations for financial year 2026-27, accepted by the Government and published on 9 June 2026, is now available at this link: Armed Forces’ Pay Review Body Fifty-Fifth Report 2026.
We previously reported that:
The armed forces are set to receive an above-inflation pay award, with an announcement expected in the coming
Today, 22nd May 2026, is the fifteenth anniversary of the official end of Operation Telic, the formal name for UK operations in Iraq that began with the 2003 invasion and subsequent removal of the dictator.
UK combat forces, primarily based in the southern city of Basra, had withdrawn from Iraq in July 2009, but, since then, at the request of the
This year's Armed Forces Day national event will be hosted by Rushmoor Borough Council at Aldershot and Farnborough on Saturday, 27th June 2026, with other events taking place across the UK on or around the same date.
When Armed Forces Day was started by the then Labour government one view was that armed forces personnel were hardly honoured by
An MOD written parliamentary answer to James Cartlidge MP (Cons, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence) reveals that in just under 20 months, nearly sixty thousand applications to join the armed forces were rejected on medical grounds.
The answer also revealed striking disparities amongst the figures for the respective services -
The Ministry of Defence has announced that for the first time, free, independent legal advice will be available to victim-survivors of rape and sexual offences (allegedly) committed by Service personnel or a civilian subject to Service Discipline that are being investigated by the Service Justice System.
The Independent Legal Advocacy (ILA) support programme pilot will, from Spring 2026, provide impartial