evidence: It’s quite possible that someone in the government glanced at a report on Rockall, saw the word "land" and immediately envisioned a hammer and sickle fluttering above an island fortress festooned with radar dishes. Rockall was, in the words of geographer Fraser MacDonald, "sufficiently near to the range to be an embarrassment if it were acquired by some foreign power." [...] No! Being "land," Rockall was a threat to national security. It was obvious. We had to have it. Since 2016 when Brexit tossed the economic rulebook overboard, Rockall has become the focus of a very different and rather more bitter type of conflict: