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
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
This vision glorious
Let us allow the glory of Easter to touch our daily lives
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries