We need to ask people to acknowledge what was once a basic reality. That the purpose of a state is to serve the interests of its citizens and decisions ought to be taken through that framework. Is an intervention in our national interest? Does it benefit Britain and its people?
In the middle of East Falkland, thirty miles from the nearest tree, in a bleak moor where the wind never stops blowing, is a big RAF airbase with a runway for large jets, a hospital and a school, surrounded by thousands of acres of empty, undeveloped land.
That ultimately depends upon three key hurdles – The first relates to the structure of the party. The second is the question of a functional shadow cabinet. The third is the cohesive policy. Currently those three variables still need to be resolved.
Today, the Falkland Islands are riding high, with GDP at around £280 million per year and £84,000 per head. The economy transformed by revenues from the fishing industry with a strong likelihood of hydrocarbons turning the islands into the Switzerland of the South Atlantic.
Iain Dale, in his new life of the former prime minister, fails to convey either how loved or how loathed she was.
Antarctica itself – ice-covered, inhospitable and almost uninhabited – is becoming the site of growing geopolitical tensions.
What Labour doesn’t seem to understand is that actions in respect to one overseas territory will have consequences for others.
Needed: a Leader of the Opposition who can puncture the pious coercion inflicted on the Commons by the PM.
Up until now, there has been no formal vehicle to champion the Overseas Territories within the Conservative Party. That is why the Conservative Friends of Overseas Territories (CFOT) is being established.
Too many governments which extol the virtues of democracy in principle seem all too willing to abandon such lofty principles when it suits their base, commercial purposes.
He was the most formidable Chancellor of the Twentieth Century and a titan of the modern Conservative Party – voting for Sunak and endorsing his approach in last summer’s Tory leadership election.,
This isn’t the time for ambiguity, but clarity: now give them the tools so they can finish the job and free all their territory, including Crimea.
General Galtieri’s was a wicked regime. But his armies, unlike Vladimir Putin’s, at least respected the rules of war.
Ceding control is an unforced error in an age of geo-economic competition. A 99-year lease won’t stop Mauritius from signing a defence treaty with China or allowing the Chinese to monitor and disrupt UK-US operations in Diego Garcia.