Women – and transwomen – should fight on the frontline

My favourite quote of all time comes from John Stuart Mill:

‘War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.’

The willingness of the British armed forces to sacrifice their lives on a daily basis – not for their country these days, but for the far greater goal of freedom in the fight against Islamofascism – quite rightly brings home to the more intelligent of us precisely how lazy, shallow and just plain dull most of the ways we make a living are. People with a healthy level of self-esteem can accept that they are cowards compared to these men and women and get on with their lives.