The Gardener of Lashkar Gah is today's @guardianculture Book of the day. Thank you @JohnSimpsonNews for this wonderful review. "Beautifully researched and deeply moving, her account brought me to tears more than once".

Want to know what it was like working in secret for nearly two years on the longest ever superinjunction? Come listen to me and Pia Sarma, our editorial legal director on Monday 10th November at The Times

Gunner Jaysley Beck's mother says "the army is clearly not a safe space for young women". "This is still continuing," she says outside Bulford Military Court.

How much will it cost UK to arm jets with nuclear weapons? No one knows

Exclusive: Army officers have been warned by the deputy chief of the general staff that they must “disassociate” themselves with private members’ clubs that do not treat women equally

A former army officer said the civilian doctor on an overseas base in the 2000s was “disliked by the wives and female soldiers as there were too many breast and internal examinations needed”.

Current army policy states no such checks should take place. Wiltshire police are understood to be looking at how medical practitioners applied earlier guidance in practice and whether there was a “gap” between what they should have been doing and what they did

Women have also alleged doctors carried out examinations of their breasts and genitals as they tried to join the British Army

Exclusive: Female army recruits were told to strip down to their underwear and bend over and touch their toes as doctors “who held the keys to their career” stood behind them and “checked their spines”

More than 50 years on, the families of those killed in the Birmingham pub bombings are still pushing for a public inquiry and, ultimately, justice for their loved ones

"Your friend has gone to war. Bang, bang!” - a must read by @jeromestarkey

Hundreds of female recruits have come forward to allege sexual abuse during medical examinations to join the British Army over five decades

This is one of the most devastating videos I’ve seen recently from the West Bank. It shows two elderly Palestinians on their own land, simply trying to harvest their olives near Bethlehem. An Israeli settler invades their property, blocking them from reaching their trees. Two

The unredacted version of Nick Timothy's excoriating Home Office review says MI5, GCHQ and MI6 are "failing to keep pace" with threats to national security. It says decisions often end in deadlock because of competing interests of MI5 & MI6 Excl by @GeorgeGreenwood and me:

"Eyewitnesses told us that after the soldier fired (killing an unarmed 9 year old) he raised his arms in a gesture of apparent joy; his buddies joined in the gaiety. Then they fired tear-gas grenades at some of the locals who tried to save the boy"

Inside the quest to free the "Palestinian Nelson Mandela"

Judge Patrick Lynch said the evidence presented against the veteran fell well short of what was required for conviction.

Soldier F has been found not guilty over Bloody Sunday

A network linked to Russian spies enlisted British companies to unwittingly help build President Putin’s Arctic submarine defences for nearly a decade. Great reporting by @AliMitib

Verdict expected today in the trial of a former British soldier - Soldier F - accused of murdering two people on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972