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Montevideo, April 4th 2025 - 21:20 UTC

Tag: Robert Taylor

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2025 - 10:56 UTC

    The Falkland Islands have become surprisingly diverse, reports The Spectator

    Go to one of Stanley’s shops, offices, restaurants, or the sheep farms in the more remote areas, and you’ll meet people hailing from far-flung corners of the world.

    By Robert Taylor - What springs to mind when you think of the Falklands? You might imagine the wild, windswept landscape, sparsely populated by the sheep-farming communities that have made the Islands their home for nearly 200 years.

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  • Saturday, February 22nd 2014 - 06:58 UTC

    The new Falklands war: fought over the waves

    It is a war of attrition, perhaps lasting many decades to come, according to Taylor

    By Robert Taylor (*) - It’s 32 years since Argentina’s brief occupation of the Falklands ended in humiliation. But, if anything, her desire to swallow up the Islands is stronger than ever. Oil is a big factor, of course, but even more fundamental is the passionate (if unjustifiable) belief that the British stole the Falklands in 1833 in an act of old-fashioned colonialism – a perceived wrong that successive Argentine governments seem determined to right.