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Nato: an aggressive alliance we must openly oppose 
The hawkish Labour leadership’s ban on criticising the modern world’s most belligerent, blood-drenched military alliance only confirms that we must – and call for its dissolution, writes ANDREW MURRAY

NATO is the name which must not be mentioned in British politics today — at least in anything other than tones of utmost reverence.

The 74-year-old military alliance has become a totem pole which all are required to dance around. Its real record is not examined, its present purposes go unscrutinised. It joins the royal family as an object of unquestioned bipartisan worship.

A year ago, Labour leader Keir Starmer effectively slapped a ban on any criticism of the alliance, even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine had begun.

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