The thing is, the Argentine people really do live in a stalker-like fantasy land when it comes to the Falkland Islands – and the Argentine government encourages them to. In fact it rules that they do so. The pursuit osovereignty over the Falklands is confirmed in their constitution. It’s the only thing that the country, long divided by political factionalism and social strife, can agree on.

From the day they are born, the “Malvinas” myth is poured into innocent little Argentine ears. They are poked and prodded at school with concepts like “British colonialism”, “stolen lands” and “piratical usurpers” . Presumably at no point are Argentines reminded that their own country came about through Spanish colonialism; that their beautiful lush lands once belonged to a slaughtered or subjugated indigenous population; that the Falklands had no indigenous population and that the people there now have just as much right (if not more) to be in their little corner of the world as Argentines do to be in theirs.