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No. 2 in the World!

Friday, August 19, 2022

… for most expensive internet . In a report published last week by the South American business analysis website BN Americas, it was stated that the Falkland Islands has the most expensive mobile data in South America, and the second-most-expensive in the world. In a run-down of data costs carried out by British price-comparison firm […]

Filed in feature, Journalism | Also tagged Alliance for Affordable Internet, BN Americas, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Colombia, communications, development, Falklands Radio, Fiji, International Telecommunication Union, Israel, Mexico, money, news, Peru, public policy, social media, South America, St Helena, Sure, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, the Falklands, the internet, Tokelau, Uruguay, USAID | Comments (0)

A Hitch in time

Sunday, May 15, 2022

On the late, great Christopher Hitchens, and the role the Falklands may have played in his political development. — For The Critic

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged 9/11, Admiral Graf von Spee, Adolf Hitler, Afghanistan, Africa, Alexander Haig, Barack Obama, Battle Day, Borges, Britain, Caspar Weinberger, Christopher Hitchens, coffee, Commander Eric Hitchens, conservatives, Cossacks, Covid, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Cyprus, Denis MacShane, Falklands Radio, football, Goose Green, Hector Timerman, Holland, Human Rights Watch, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jacobo Timerman, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Jews, Jorge Videla, Journalism, La Opinion, Lebanon, Lincoln's Inn, Lt Nick Taylor, Margaret Thatcher, Nazis, New York, Nicholas Henderson, Palestine, Robert Cox, Ronald Reagan, Salman Rushdie, terrorism, The Critic, The Falklands War, the Inquisition, the Junta, the left wing, the Mediterranean, The Nation, The New Statesman, the Pacific, the Royal Navy, The Spectator, the UN, the Union Jack, Ukraine, Washington DC, WWI, WWII | Comments (0)

Small-town radio

Thursday, April 21, 2022

The second (Stanley) instalment of my exchange of Falklands War/1982 letters with Dominic Hilton in Argentina. — For The Critic

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged .1982, ABBA, Adam Godley, America, Armed Forces' Day, Battle Day, BBC World Service, Ben Fogle, BFBS, birthdays, Bob Peck, Buenos Aires, coincidences, complaints, condoms, Dire Straits, Dominic Hilton, Don Williams, Falkland Islands, Falkland Islands Defence Force, Falkland Islands Radio Service, fishing, fruit, Government House, Graham Bound, horse-racing, Ian Richardson, John Simpson, letters, Major Mike Norman, Mantovani, Marc Warren, Mike Grady, MLA Gavin Short, music, Patrick Watts MBE, PTSD, Richard Brautigan, Royal Marines, senior citizens, sheep, Sir Rex Hunt, South Georgia, Stanley, submarines, The Critic, The Falklands War, The Penguin News, the West Store, The West Wing, tourism | Comments (0)

No April fools

Thursday, April 7, 2022

The opening salvo in a projected 10-week exchange of letters on/around the Falklands War, with Dominic Hilton in the Argentina capital. — For The Critic

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged .1982, Andrew Brownlee, Brian Summers, Buenos Aires, communications, Dominic Hilton, Falkland Islands Defence Force, Falkland Islands Government, Falkland Islands Radio Service, General Sir Mike Rose, Government House, His Excellency Nigel Phillips CBE, letters, Major General Julian Thompson, Major Justin McPhee, Mount Pleasant Complex, penguins, PTSD, Royal Marines, SAS, Sir Rex Hunt, Stanley, The Critic, the Falklands, The Falklands War, the Malvina House Hotel, The Penguin News, whisky, Whitehall | Comments (0)

Turned out nice again

Friday, January 28, 2022

With the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict imminent, two Brits – one Stanley-based and one in Buenos Aires – discuss that ‘hottest’ of all conversational potatoes… the weather. — For The Emigre

Filed in Journalism, podcast | Also tagged bars, Buenos Aires, children, Covid-19, Dominic Hilton, Falkland Islands Radio Service, farming, free speech, hair, holidays, landmines, maps, marriage, quarantine, sheep, shipping, Stanley, The Emigre, the Falklands, trees, vaccination, Virginia, walking, war, weather | Comments (0)

The Ones That Got Away

Sunday, June 14, 2020

Introduction to a new column on photographic misfires, beginning with my own amateur misadventures. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Filed in column, Journalism | Also tagged Antarctica, birds, cows, England, Ethiopia, France, Gamini Jayantha Molligoda, Gundulf, in-laws, Instagram, leopards, London, phones, photography, Russia, South Africa, statuary, Sunday Times (SL), technology, The Fast Show, The One That Got Away, Wilpattu | Comments (0)

May Day, May Day…

Monday, May 4, 2020

A lockdown letter from Colombo. — For The Critic

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Amazon, army, beer, children, China, Colombo, coronavirus, cricket, Dominic Hilton, drink, Facebook, food, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, health, letters, lockdown, May Day, Mel Gibson, money, Osama bin Laden, painting, peacocks, quizzes, Sanskrit, shopping, Singapore, Sinhala, socialism, Sri Lanka, swimming, the British, The Critic, UberEats, work | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, October 7, 2019

. The Paris Louvre is in future to be guarded by watch-dogs. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Monday, July 13 1908 . The human population has almost doubled since we landed on the Moon. Genital preferences are transphobic. The third umpire will have the final say on the snatch. It is against the rules to take a […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, anatomy, babies, Bertha, business, cell-phones, chewing gum, coconuts, cricket, death, dogs, drink, education, Florence, German, girls, Greeks, history, humans, lambs, law, Nelson Evening Mail, newspapers, Paris, philosophy, satire, singing, Stalin, the Louvre, the moon, West Sussex, wisdom, writing | Comments (0)