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Probably the most defining aspect of the the 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and 2018 Formula 1 Season in general, was not what occurred during the race, but what happened after it.  It was the comradeship, the espirit de corps, the sense of  coming together and euphoria which washed over the racers and teams.  It was about the display of respect and feeling of shared pleasure and joy between the racers.  Between Hamilton and Vettel, between Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, between Hamilton and Verstappen.  Between Vettel and Alonso, and between Verstappen and Vettel, and between them and all the other drivers.  It was about the fact that Ocon and Verstappen could race each other wheel to wheel, displaying mutual respect for each other, after their tantrum during the Brazil Grand Prix.  It was the fact that this coming of age, this display of maturity and heightened professionalism.   Of humanity and humility unadorned by inappropriate egocentrism and masochism, seem t

For it to remove the religious, political, social and conservative cultural yoke which it is using to deprive its people of their human, political, social and personal rights. But before it does any of this, the government of Saudi Arabia, beginning with Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman.   Should first acknowledge and take responsibility for the heinous murder of Jamal Khoshoggi, and for its atrocious war in Yemen. And ask for forgiveness. This, I believe, is what Allah and Prophet Muhammad would expect of the Guardians of the Kabaa, and other Islamic shrines in Saudi Arabia.  It is something which is in the power of the Saudi government to deliver to the Saudis.  Just as how it has used the past to maintain their imprisonment, it can use the future to set them  free, by discontinuing and reforming the shackles of past. Including the pernicious religious ones.    They need to do it, since, while they are not capable of bringing the dead back to life, or

And negotiating appropriate national, regional and international viable policies, and agreements.  Which are likely to achieve a greater and fairer distribution and redistribution of their individual and collective resources and wealth. It is not a situation which can be remedied by the Bolsonaros and the Trumps of the world. Their proposed and tried solutions are destined to make the situation worse; much worse than it already is. After all, it is clear that the existing social, political and economic order or systems are no longer, if ever they were, appropriate for meeting the demands which are being made upon them.  Which is that they should be meeting the needs of all the people, to an adequate extent. And not just the needs of the top 1 and 6 per cent of the world's population.  That the people living in the western and northern hemisphere should be able to continue to live in their current or more affluent life-styles.  While thos

It is given to all life, both human and non-human, sentient and non-sentient, to be living on borrowed time.  From the very point of our inception or conception, to the point of our re-incorporation into the Cosmic dust from when we all evolve.  Probably the main difference is that, depending on our age, stages of life and our habitat, we might or might not know how much time we do have, before we fall of the Cliff of Life and is reclaimed by oblivion. A person is known and/or knows that he/she is suffering from a terminal illness, is living on borrowed time, the extent of which can probably be quantified with a high level of accuracy.  A person who has attained quite or very advanced age, is also living on borrowed time, the extent of which might be measurable in a matter of months or number of years.  Outside of these parameters, irrespective of our age, us humans have become prone to not only die from 'old age' and terminal illnesses.  But al

The reaction of the Right-wing paramilitaries, whose response to crime had been to systematically target and callously murder the poor, desperate and homeless children and youths who had been living on the streets of Brazil. The fact that leaders, or, more accurately, bad rulers such as Bolsonaro, want to resurrect the days of the South American dictators.   Is an indication of their lack of belief in, and inability to inspire the building of a future which is better than the past and the present.  They are attesting to their belief in the need for war, not only between their version of Christianity and other religions, but also between their version of 'good people' and 'bad people.' A successful and enlightened, liberal nation cannot be build on the model of an army, or be led by latterday Napoleons, Nelsons, Castros, Bolivars, et al. Transforming the conflicted and desperate and despairing countries of the Americas, and other regions of the w

This is not something which can be fixed by the Saudi government paying Jamal Khoshoggi 'blood money.'  It is true that Saudi Arabia's western government allies are motivated by money and trade, in wanting to protect and defend their alliance with the Kingdom.  However, it is not just about Jamal Khoshoggi and his family. It is about the hundreds, if not thousands of other Saudi citizens who have had terrible injustices done to them, and about their families.  Whether they are bloggers, human rights advocates, or simply ordinary Saudi citizens.   Who have been prevented from or punished for daring to live their lives with the kind of freedom which is commonplace in any modern and enlightened country.  It is also about the hundreds of thousands of Yemenis who have had their lives snuffed out, and their bodies broken.   And their livelihoods and 'right to life' blighted by the war being waged against them by Saudi Arabia and its allies. 

In fact, it is more likely that there is an inverse relationship between their idealised reputation, and their actual state of being.  And this is as true of President Donald Trump's United States of America, as it is of what the Saudi Monarchy has made of Saudi Arabia.  Dig just below the surface of any 'great nation', any empire, and you will find the rottenness, the decay, the corruption and the concealed injustices, on which they are founded and sustained. Their sepulchred state, if you like. So, no, the atrocious murder of Jamal Khoshoggi will not, and, it seems, would almost be an act of great injustice the other victims of Saudi inhumanity.   If it were to become the catalyst which brings about the collapse of the evil and anachronistic government of Saudi Arabia.  And of its unholy alliance with the French, American and British governments.  But, of course, if it could be manipulated into expanding the existing fissure in the armour of the Saudi m

To turn to crime, make it their 'legitimate' way of life, and pass it on to their children and community as 'a legitimised' lifestyle.  However, once it has become endemic in mainstream society, or 'normalised' into an alternative society.  It is not something which can simply be excoriated, or extricated by the extermination and/or incarceration of the people. Which include 'ordinary people' who, at different levels of society, are both benefiting from and/or keeping it alive.  No, this response cannot be an appropriate and effective one.   Because the people who inhabit these alternative societies, whether they are in Brazil, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, South Africa, Nigeria, Jamaica, et al.   Are, along with their habitations, also a fundamental part of the country in which they exist.  And, like those who consider themselves to be 'the righteous citizens', of whichever country, also, with the appropriate leaders

And so it was, that, despite a spirited and seemingly unabated challenge from both Team Ferrari and Team Red Bull, in the form of Sebastian Vettel, Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo.  Team MerHam displayed their now customary calm and masterful domination of the Yas Marinas Circuit, to convert their Qualifying Pole position into a Win.  For Team Mercedes, the only chagrin of the race, was in the torrid situation which Valtteri Bottas had found himself.  With him having to suffer the indignity of doing error-induced battles with and being thoroughly 'destroyed' by both Verstappen and Ricciardo.  Leaving him probably feeling and humiliated and dazed at the end of the race, having been demoted to P.5. Yes, not even the predicament of Magnussen, in having his car flipped over and somersaulting twice, following a dangerous collision with Grosjean.   As dramatic as it was, could outdone the humiliation which Bottas might have experienced.    As a result of