Monthly Archives: April 2022
Lies Damn Lies:The Falklands War
If in war the first casualty is truth, then the Falklands conflict, fourty years ago, provides an interesting case study. This paper examines the extent to which a regimented society in Argentina was exploited by the military junta to provide a manipulated and distorted narrative of the Falklands War. The aim was to give the impression that the war was not only justified in sovereignty terms but had God on its side. In the process a nation rallied behind a Project which in diplomatic and military terms was doomed to …
David Gardner Remembered
In memory of David Gardner, friend and colleague David and I were not just colleagues but enduring friends over more than five decades from when we first started at Stonyhurst College aged thirteen. Those were formative years educationally with the Jesuits giving as a sense of human solidarity and openness to the world and the need to be active participants. He was always ahead of me intellectually and I followed his early teenage recommendation for expanding my learning. He was reading Orwell as an example of English essay writing and …
