How Liberals Learned to Love NATO
In the wake of the war in Ukraine, NATO has been presented as a defensive alliance for democracy — but its actual history has been the promotion of Western imperial interests, often at the point of a gun.
Many are the traditions of the labour movement that the anodyne authoritarian now leading its political wing seeks to discard. But there is one which Keir Starmer wants to exalt: Britain’s membership of NATO. Indeed, he regards the creation of this military alliance as perhaps the greatest legacy that past Labour governments have handed down […]