Sabotage Times, We can't Concentrate so Why Should You?

I rejected my dream girl on the first day of school, then regretted it for the rest of my teenage years in between beating the shit out of kids from other schools and getting kneed in the head…

Now, as a fully-fledged resident of civvy street, I am beginning to miss the peculiar routine of cleaning guns and eating crap rations on the other side of the world…

As a virgin soldier all I had was a picture of a girl from Manchester, but as we landed on our latest tour I ended up hiding Steve’s stash to stop him from going insane…

Queueing up to fly out to war, one brave quiet soldier from Liverpool showed more courage than any of us by saying loudly that the war we were about to fight was unjustified…

It was a fellow squaddie’s 18th birthday and we headed for an infamous Soho sex show. As a Muslim soldier, my experience was a different from that of their regular clientèle.

The Salman Rushdie controversy had a particular resonance for me as a child growing up in a Muslim area of Burnley in the late 80s. Here’s why I was so confused with it all…

In the First World War deserters faced the firing squad, but if you were on your way to an Afghanistan war you didn’t believe in, to what lengths would you go to avoid the fighting?