At the Executive Meeting on 25th January we made a start on a review of what we are about, what we do and do not do and what we ought to be doing. As an opening discussion it was most interesting and it is taking ages to summarise for the minutes of the meeting. This blog even came into the discussion and I was ecouraged to make the address more widely available, at least to our members so that they could benefit from any pearls of wisdom that might accidentally stray into my comments. Such readers as there are will be aware that I have kept out of the political arguments that have crept into the papers and even on television with the approach of the 30th Anniversary of the Falklands Conflict. In my last post I did mention some of the main items that appeared in the British press.

For an organisation that supports the Islanders we are, perhaps, a bit slow in responding with letters to the Editor where appropriate and it was a point that came up in the discussions mentioned above. There is always the option for any member, to make a personal response, to comment, especially in the on-line versions of the papers and the point was made that the articles by Simon Winchester and Héctor Timerman in The Times deserved a strong response and it came in the form of a full article by the Foreign Secretary. Enough said - must get back to the minutes of the meeting.