Judge and Jury: Army should be saluted for its admission of race mistakes - The British Army’s latest campaign to target recruitment of ethnic minorities can be a success if it is not seen as too little, too late, says Adrian Wheeler, managing dir

The Army’s new recruitment advertising features non-white faces in a parody of Lord Kitchener’s famous original poster. The launch of the ads is accompanied by a set of initiatives designed to eradicate racism from the ranks - or at least to improve on the one per cent figure which the Army currently recruits from Britain’s ethnic minorities.

by ADRIAN WHEELER

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