A Hitch in time
Our Falklands correspondent muses on the importance of the war to the late journalist
Small town radio
Letters from the Falklands front: when broadcasting was a matter of life or death
The fall of Port Stanley
Letters from the Falklands front: no April fool
Brass and bullshit
Influencer is just another name for snake-oil salesman
The Great War in the South Atlantic
Today is a Falklands public holiday
A town called Egmont
A.S.H. Smyth yomps to the scant, wind-battered ruins of the first British colony on the Falkland Islands
Lots in translation
As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes
Re-building a library
Confessions of a bibliomaniac in the South Atlantic
Zooming Windows
The George Formby Society attempts a ukulele world record, online
Antarctic adventure
From the submarine service to the world’s southernmost sub-post office, A S H Smyth interviews Sally Owen, a Falklands-based dentist who also helps to conserve the historic sites of Antarctica
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
