Disaster for the Scuds at the start. Lec loses two places at the start and Sai beached on the gravel by Ric's McLemon bringing out the safety car. #ImolaGP#ForzaFerrari#F1
Scuds may have the best car but they can't seem to shake their run of bad luck. Sai did nothing wrong there and was taken out. #ImolaGP#ForzaFerrari#F1
Lap 22. Lec has it all to do again after everyone pits for slicks. But he's now 0,5s behind Per and doing fastest laps. #ImolaGP#ForzaFerrari#F1
Lap 24. This is ridiculous. Why Isn't DRS enabled? Per is just holding Lec up. #ImolaGP#ForzaFerrari#F1
Lap 30. The refusal to enable DRS is just handing the race to Ver and turning this from a race into a procession. #ImolaGP#ForzaFerrari#F1
Lap 33. Lec is now 12s off the lead thanks to the Race Director, so even if he were to get past Per, it will be hard to catch up to Ver. #ImolaGP#ForzaFerrari#F1
Lap 36. Finally, DRS is enabled. Lec is 2.3s behind Per but can now get after him seriously. #ImolaGP#ForzaFerrari#F1
Lap 39. Recalling how long it took Lec to catch Per and the fact that the Scuds are harder on their tyres, we'll be lucky to get P2 out of this. That atrocious delay in enabling DRS has completely ruined the chances for the win. #ImolaGP#ForzaFerrari#F1
Lap 43. Scuds should just pit Lec for soft tyres and give him the chance to chase down Per if he doesn't respond or undercut him if he does. Even if he drops behind Nor, it should be easy to get past. #ImolaGP#ForzaFerrari#F1
Lap 47. Lec is just dropping back from Per. Over 3s behind. Clearly won't catch him on track. Scuds should throw the dice and pit him unless there's a chance of rain. #ImolaGP#ForzaFerrari#F1
Lap 51. Lec pits and Per responds. But the gap is now 1.3s. We have a race for P2! #ImolaGP#ForzaFerrari#F1
Mwai Kibaki epitomised Kenya's tragedy. A brilliant guy who talked a good game but when it came down to it was incapable of confronting the colonial legacy and became an intrinsically corrupt element of the "Old Establishment" he had warned about.
“Will the elite, which has inherited power from the colonialists, use that power to bring about the necessary social and economic changes, or will they succumb to the lure of wealth, comfort and status and thereby become part of the Old Establishment?” Kibaki asked in 1964.
Sadly the elite, including Kibaki, happily ensconced themselves in the colonial state and continued its thieving, brutal ways. Given an overwhelming mandate to overthrow it in 2002, he instead sent GSU into Bomas, protected the corrupt, stole elections and murdered Kenyans.
@khadijapatel Is independent public funding for private media or public owned media a solution to the media "sustainability" crisis? If media is a public interest function, shouldn't the public pay to "sustain" it? #journalismfestival
I wonder whether we've reached the limit of a model of private for-profit media enterprises serving a public interest function (assuming they ever did). #IJF22
If independent journalism is a critical public good, what exactly should it be independent from? Is it just the state or should it also be independent of "the market"? @khadijapatel#IJF22
Got to the base of Point Lenana, next to Harris Tarn (4630m if the internet is to be believed) yesterday morning courtesy @outdoorerke. Didn't fancy the rock climb to the very top though.
Mt Kenya looks very different and much more intimidating and beautiful up close, compared to the images from further away. It's peaks are mountains in their own right! And there's many more than the famous three, which seem to be the only ones with miro names.
One of the really jarring things up there is how nearly everything is named for (presumably long dead) odieros whom most Kenyans have never heard of. Lakes Ellis, Alice, Michaelson; Hall, Harris tarns; Delamere, Williamson peaks; Shipton, Mackinder's, Mintos camps, etc.
Question: What work does the word "conflict" do? I've used it somewhat tongue-in-cheek ("ethnic conflict") but it does convey the wrong impression. Just as it is misleading to speak of a Middle East "conflict" when one side steals the land and oppresses the people of another.
"Conflict" implies competing legitimacies that need to be resolved. But there is no justifying either the Russian invasion or the Apartheid Israel occupation (and no, that's not bothsideism or whatabouttery). The solution is clear in both cases. The aggressor should withdraw.
One can accept that both Russia and Apartheid Israel can have legitimate security concerns without justifying either brutal invasion or murderous occupation (just as one need not believe in the pristineness of either Palestinians or Ukrainians to acknowledge their oppression).
Anyone with a copy of this bill? Does it actually say it is illegal to report results from the polling station and constituency tallying stations which are final and should by law be displayed publicly? This from @NationAfrica doesn't actually say. nation.africa/kenya/news/pol…
From my reading, the amendment removes from @IEBCKenya the obligation to stream "statistics" as in 2017. While that poses transparency and credibility issues, it doesn't actually stop media from independently reporting results directly from polling stations or tallying centres.
In fact, what we need is a firm commitment from media to reporting results and calling the election independently and not relying on the @IEBCKenya "statistics". Those results are publicly announced and displayed at polling stations and tallying centres.