Philip Blood
Dr Philip W Blood is a historian of security-military culture: occupation, insurgency, war crimes and the Holocaust. Follow him at @HistorianBlood
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The lesson of the Soviet-Finnish War warns us against misunderstanding a war in progress
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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
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
