Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE

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.