Why is a war fought 44 years ago back on the front pages?
What happens when a combative president in Buenos Aires, a friend in the White House and an oil field due online in 2028 all point at the same islands?
And, when 99.8% of the people who live there have already voted, whose islands are they to argue over?
Fresh from Sir Lawrence Freedman's two-volume official history of the Falklands campaign, Peter Frankopan takes on the question Afua Hirsch can't let go: whose rights come first?
The official record reads like a detective story: the orders, the officers' doubts, and a Prime Minister who went against some of her own senior ministers. But the argument behind it never went away. Afua sets out why the politics look upside down to someone who opposes colonialism. Peter traces Argentina's claim back to a 15th-century treaty. Then come Chagos, Guam and the British Virgin Islands, and the question of whether Britain applies its own principle consistently. There's also the odd matter of why Yair Netanyahu weighed in at all.
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[1:15] A summer with Sir Lawrence Freedman's official history of the Falklands
[2:34] Milei, Trump and oil: why a 1982 war is live again
[7:18] Inside the official records, and Thatcher's gamble
[10:54] Afua's question: whose rights?
[14:08] 99.8%, and the islanders who've been there for 200 years
[16:48] Chagos, Guam, the British Virgin Islands: is Britain consistent?
[19:47] Two wrongs, red post boxes and the Victory Pub
[24:44] Why Yair Netanyahu picked a side
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