Blair has two trumps to play for a third term: time and the Tories

JUST the other day I was in a small airport in a remote part of Argentina. On the wall was a prominent tribute to the local pilots who died during the 1983 effort to “reclaim the Malvinas”.

Long after the rest of the world has virtually forgotten the Falklands War, Argentineans still remember vividly.

In Buenos Aires, veterans of the combat are permanently camped outside the presidential palace, and the square which once saw General Galtieri address hundreds of thousands of cheering supporters is, to this day, bedecked with banners reading “Never forget the Malvinas”.