Philip Blood
Dr Philip W Blood is a historian of security-military culture: occupation, insurgency, war crimes and the Holocaust. Follow him at @HistorianBlood
No blueprint for Putin’s War
The lesson of the Soviet-Finnish War warns us against misunderstanding a war in progress
The wrong kind of victim
Today’s victimhood narratives don’t make space for the most vulnerable
I spy a new clampdown
Will new laws to combat foreign espionage inhibit public interest journalism?
Love’s labourers lost
Romeo finds himself overcome by a sense of utter hopelessness
Is Putin’s war turning genocidal?
Campaign Diary: Evidence of Russian war crimes found in Bucha
Seeing the big picture
The most enduring historical work reveals eternal truths about the human condition
Death of a sporting hero
Lester Piggott was the greatest jockey — bar none
Labour’s Wakefield win is nothing to crow over
Maybe turning Labour into the “some-women-have-penises” party isn’t such a popular electoral strategy after all
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 / Moments Musicaux
A new release of Rachmaninov’s first piano sonata deserves more than five stars
This town ain’t big enough for the both of us
Crisis and continuity in the Spanish right
The myth of the latest thing
Can Northern Irish politics evolve beyond nationalism and republicanism?