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Michael Homer completed the challenge on July 10.

Princess Anne laid a wreath at the Armed Forces Memorial to commemorate the 395 National Service conscripts killed on active duty from 1947-63.

If the rest of the population had reacted the same way as these selfish few, they would have been dying in the tens of thousands.

Jack Smythe had a trial with Stoke City Football Club as a teenager but was called to serve his National Service with the RAF before it could go any further and built a reputation as a boxer on his return

In Afghanistan, individual Australian troops were deployed up to five times. Is it not enough to send a man into a war zone just once?

Ukraine compelling all men aged 18-60 to stay in the country and fight the Russian invasion is a reminder of the reality of military conscription in many countries in Europe and around the world.

Years ago it was embarrassing to say you still lived at home when you were in your 20s. These days it has changed so much, and many people still live with their parents. Some are in their 40s and still under their mums and dads’ feet, but it doesn’