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Great British Bake Off fans slam result after 'most marketable' contestant Matty wins as they claim Josh was robbed of being named champion
It said this was a 4% and 3% increase respectively in ethnic minority and female recruits over the previous 12 months, with the force aiming to lift the ratio of recruits to 20% ethnic minorities and 40% females by 2030.I don’t particularly see a problem with the army moving from the kind which was designed to fight large scale conventional battles of the Cold War to a much smaller more tactically flexible one, capable of small scale, high impact interventions in potential future hot spots. Procurement starts with a ‘capability’ to meet a stated defence commitment. Options are identified and evaluated, then scientists, MoD civil servants, the DTI, defence companies, politicians, and military experts, all get involved, with the Treasury holding the whip hand. It takes at least 10 years to deliver that capability, with the military having less and less say, politicians coming and going, the original requirement having been changed, and budgets reduced. And the net result? A piece of equipment which is over-engineered, over budget, late, and has little flexibility to do the job it’s now needed for, and which has been procured more for its ‘UK content’ and jobs than to serve its purpose. The author of the piece, Edward Mylius, was duly arrested, charged with criminal libel and sentenced to 12 months in jail. Eddie Murphy, 62, and fiancée Paige Butcher, 44, put on a cozy display at Candy Cane Lane premiere in LA
Maya Jama puts on a VERY leggy display in dazzling silver gown as she attends the Sabina Bilenko Couture Christmas partyJessica Simpson, 43, bares her VERY toned tummy in a sexy crop top and spandex pants as the mom-of-three enjoys a night out in NYC Great British Bake Off winner Matty Edgell reveals he is engaged togirlfriend Lara following final where he was named champion Elizabeth Hurley, 58, flashes a hint of cleavage in a plunging sequinned blazer as she enjoys a night out with pals at swanky hotspot Oswald's Dua Lipa puts on an edgy style display in Matrix-inspired all-leather ensemble in NYC - as star 'plans a stadium tour for 2024'
Who won Great British Bake Off? Matty triumphs as he beats off competition from fellow finalists Dan and Josh to win 2023 series The crown therefore would have gone to George's uncle Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught and Queen Victoria's third son. The Army’s focus on the new Ranger battalions, tasked with training and directing local partner forces, in place of line infantry hints at a world of conflict where the business of fighting is increasingly left to expendable proxies. Yet a shrunken, more tightly-focussed Army also presents a challenge for a denuded British state, which has increasingly come to rely on soldiers to make up for its own lost capacity. This, remember, is very close to home. George V and Mary were grandparents to the late Queen Elizabeth II, who knew them as a child and been fond of them. He was responding to a comment by Tobias Ellwood, the chair of the committee, who had accused the RAF of discriminating against white men.
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The “Best Little Army in the World” may be getting littler, but it is not for the better. As the defence analyst Francis Tusa warns , the result of its decades-long and self-inflicted procurement woes is that it is now more or less “combat incapable against high-end threats”. Two decades of fighting poorly-equipped insurgents has distracted the Army from its primary mission of defending the country against a competent and well-equipped adversary like Russia or China. UK faces being the second slowest growing economy in the G7 next year but will dodge recession, OECD says
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