A S H Smyth

ASH Smyth is a freelance writer and reviewer (and former singer, soldier, school teacher, and bricky's labourer). He now lives in the Falkland Islands.

Our Falklands correspondent muses on the importance of the war to the late journalist

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Letters from the Falklands front: when broadcasting was a matter of life or death

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Letters from the Falklands front: no April fool

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Influencer is just another name for snake-oil salesman

Books

Today is a Falklands public holiday

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A.S.H. Smyth yomps to the scant, wind-battered ruins of the first British colony on the Falkland Islands

Features

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

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Confessions of a bibliomaniac in the South Atlantic

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The George Formby Society attempts a ukulele world record, online

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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

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