General Belgrano warship

• MAY I draw attention to Jorge Luis Borges’s take on the Falklands conflict being discussed in your May 14 Letters pages? (Interest in the oil resources around the Falklands was never a secret and The Crown has responsibility for defence of the Falklands).

Two bald men fighting over a comb.

I question what benefits the general population of both Britain and Argentina have enjoyed as a result of such death and destruction.

GEOFFREY THOMAS
Queen’s Crescent, NW5