The geopolitics behind the UK’s South Atlantic hantavirus rescue mission

UK airborne troops and medics were parachuted onto a remote south Atlantic island to assist a British national with suspected hantavirus. Yet foreign secretary Yvette Cooper’s comments on this mission suggest the UK had broader geopolitics considerations and the failing US-UK ‘special relationship’ in mind. Naturally, the British military are always desperate for a ‘good […] By Joe Glenton