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May 29 • 18 tweets • 12 min read
Race Day. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Looks like a start on inters. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Or maybe not. Rain's stopped. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
When did #F1 get so scared of rain? #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari
Delayed start on mandatory full wets. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Formation lap. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Red flag. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
This is starting to look like a farce. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Looks like the race is back on in 10min. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
And cars are out behind the safety car. Apparently the race has already started though no one knows when that happened. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 3. And we're racing! #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 12. Lec leads by 4.5s over Sai. Per is 1.2s further back and 1.5s ahead of Ver. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 26. Scuds lost out in the switch over to slicks. Per leads Sai by 2s. Ver ahead of Lec by 1.1s. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 28. Safety Car after Schu crashes. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 30. Another red flag. One has to feel for Lec. Nothing seems to go well for him at home. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 33. Race resumes. Scuds strategy choices are looking very dicey with both cars on the hard tyre. RBs on brand new, much faster mediums. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Per wins. Sai. Ver. Lec. Rus. Nor. Alo. Ham. Bot. Vet. Another forgettable race for the Scuds. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
That should have been an easy 1-2 for the Scuds but they somehow conspired to screw it up. #MonacoGP #ForzaFerrari #F1

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Apr 24
Formation Lap. #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lights out!!! #ImolaGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
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
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Apr 22
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.
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Apr 7
@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
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Mar 27
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.
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Formation lap. #BahrainGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lights out!!! #BahrainGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
Lap 6. Lec leads. Sai P3 looks like he's struggling to hang on to Ver and he's being hussled by Ham. #BahrainGP #ForzaFerrari #F1
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Mar 11
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).
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