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Pray let us not do it all again in the Falklands

British colonialism is alive and well and currently drilling for oil off the Falkland Islands.

You remember them? A remote archipelago some 300 miles from Argentina and 8000 miles from the UK. Or, if you like, as near to Buenos Aires as Manchester is to London and twice as far away as Cape Town is to the UK capital.