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
As easy as pie plant
How to pamper your rhubarb patch
Prize-winner reprises and rediscovered tales
From Young Mungo to The Candy House: three new novels to read this month
Newly-minted mission statements
The Brexit coin takes bogus aspiration as part-ambition, part-accomplishment
A game of thrones
Shelley Puhak’s woman-versus-woman rivalry between queens is only part of the story
Why is TalkTV failing?
Monotonous boomer bait creates apathy, not outrage
I am big, it’s freesat that got small
Rob Hutton takes dictation, very carefully, from our new proprietor
The victorious sign
What relationship should Christianity have with politics?
Women’s rights shouldn’t be up for debate
MPs need to stop questioning the rights of biological women
Fracking is just common sense
The war in Ukraine has injected a healthy dose of realism into the West’s energy policy
Will Sinn Fein paint the town green?
The nationalist party may triumph in the Stormont elections, but it could prove a hollow victory
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception