Archive: Falklands

Feature: Five ways the Falklands war changed the world

Falklands: A World War Two-era war in the modern world

Thirty years ago today, Argentinean troops invaded the Falklands. It was an event with lasting effects on gender politics, Latin American history and British industry.

Analysis: Is this Cameron's Falklands?

Comment: The thuggery of Argentina's Falklands claim

30 years on: London and Buenos Aires mark the Falklands invasion

A girl walks past the Falklands Memorial during anniversary commemorations in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego this morning

Commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the Argentinean invasion of the Falklands Islands will take place in London and Buenos Aires today, amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

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Argentina ready for Falklands court battle

The Falkland Islands faces a war of attrition from Argentina

Argentina is set to open a new legal front in its 'war of attrition' against the Falkland Islands.

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politics.co.uk podcast: The Falklands under threat

Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, under threat once again

Tensions are rising between Buenos Aires and London, as the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War looms.

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Podcast #18: Falklands trouble

Three decades after British forces fought a war over them, the future of the Falkland Islands is once again very much in the news. This week we're asking: what price is Britain paying for clinging hold of this small archipelago?

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Flicker of reconciliation? UK sends condolences to Argentina after crash

A helicopter transports injured people to a medical center after a train crashed at Once train station in Buenos Aires.

The UK sent condolences to Argentina last night after a train crash killed 49 people in Buenos Aires.

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Comment: The thuggery of Argentina's Falklands claim

Ian Dunt: 'The protection of peoples' self-determination to choose their own government is the protection of the weak from the strong.'

We are protecting the people of the Falklands from a foreign government whose claim to the territory is at the intellectual level of a five-year-old child.

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