You can say this re my two published books (the latter of which I spoke about today) but also in my upcoming one re the Island Games: what does this event tell us re the recent history *of these places & people*? I'm not saying the sport is secondary... but it's the lens more than anything else.
Indeed, I would say that there is a spectrum of awareness (not necessarily universal awareness) of that fact.
(I can't necessarily point to academic research that discusses Falkland Islanders' relationship with the Chagos cause, but there is a great deal of discussion about it in the pages of the Penguin News from the 1990s onwards. "We got to choose our relationship with the UK, and so should they.")
I also think it's probably meaningless re other UK territories (& that's right & natural). The Chagos Islands were the rare point of agreement between most Falkland Islanders & Jeremy Corbyn, so this final decision represents a much broader swathe of opinion than just "left" opinion.
*When* this happens will be interesting. Not just when Starmer says it's going to happen, but when Biden (or Harris, or Trump -- and he totally cares about international agreements!) says it will happen. I can see a real "international exigencies" clause being written into the final agreement.
Spam is the appropriate use for AI-written emails.
My expertise does shine through, though, thank you! I thought you might have wanted to talk about the Scottish Surfing Federation, Hurlford Football Club, the 1986 Commonwealth Games, the RCCC, or the Isle of Man Year of Sport -- but no, AI, my profile shouts that as well, so that's totally cool!
Imagine all of the Arsenal hospitality you can purchase with gold bars. Now imagine all the hospitality that you can buy at **Falkirk**...!!!
Because I know both, I can tell you that the "which country is better"/"whose sport culture is better" hot takes on here are quite often pure nonsense, & this is why: you'll have equal examples of the bad & the good, & whatever point you're trying to make. you'll find a way to prove it.