Phil Weir
Dr Phil Weir is a naval historian and author. You can find more of his thoughts at @navalhistorian
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
