Westminster’s new “common sense” says defence spending must rise and that the price must be paid in cuts to care, public services, and social security.

But that isn’t realism. It is ideology dressed up as prudence because if we hollow out the state to fund missiles and weapon systems, we don’t strengthen national security, we undermine it. A society built on insecurity, collapsing services, and rising poverty is not a society people will defend.

In this video, I ask the most important question in the entire debate: what exactly are we defending, and for whom?