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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
