1. Learn from history and make peace now
In this week’s New Statesman, Anthony Barnett discusses the ongoing significance that the Falklands conflict has for politics and power in the UK.
2. Why Britain is in the wrong over the Falklands
In a Staggers post, TJ Coles argues that the UK has no legal right to the islands and only defends them to exploit oil and gas reserves.
3. The islands of black gold
In a 2010 NS cover story, Peter Wilby asks: as UK companies drill for oil and Argentina mobilises support, are we moving towards another, deeper conflict?
4. Why the Falklands must remain British
The Labour MP Gerald Kaufman launches a fierce attack on the Obama administration for its neutral stance on the issue.
5. What if… Britain had lost the Falklands war
Dominic Sandbrook writes a counterfactual account of the conflict.
6. Rules of engagement
Andrew Roberts reviews Sir Lawrence Freedman’s Official History of the Falklands Campaign.
7. Why Maggie was wrong
Richard Gott disputes Roberts’ view that the Falklands war was impeccably handled.
8. Was Mrs Thatcher right?
William Gill, checking old rumours about the Falklands war, talks to an Argentinian ex-captain, with surprising and unsettling results.
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