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  The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix provided us with a what was nothing short of a thrilling second race of the 2021 Formula 1 Season.  Resulting in Max Verstappen, after another, but more adrenalised Abu Dhabiesque 2021 finish, with none other than the now somewhat infamous Lathifi bringing out the Safety Car, b y losing it and embracing the fearsome barrier along the circuit.  Prevailing over Charles Leclerc to take the victory which he might have secured in the first race of the 2022 Formula 1 Season, had his care not lost power and failed to finish. The repeated 'neck to neck' battling between Verstappen and Leclerc was nothing short of being very intense and foretelling of major mishap, were either or both racers to make a mistake, as neither gave the other any but the optimum room to manoeuvre.  Indeed, this was truly an extreme version of the near nerve racking wheel to wheel racing we saw Max and Hamilton deploying during the 2021 Formula 1 season.  Except that it now appear

  Seemingly, what 'friendship with Russia' means, would be that Russia capitulate to the West and adopt its world view of itself, the West, and its mission for the world. Having said that, the current approach which the Russian government, or, more specifically, its apparent delusional President, is arguably an even more catastrophic strategy.  Since it is an approach which President Putin is insisting on implementing irrespective of the cost.  And without due regard to its cost in human lives - whether Russian or Ukrainian - and destruction of cities, towns, villages, infrastructures and livelihoods.  Put simply, President Putin is waging an horrendous war with little or no consideration or concern about its devastating impact on Russians, Ukrainians or anybody else.  He has adopted an approach which is at odds with what has come to be accepted as 'civilized and humane behaviour' in the 21st Century world.  Now, is that not the kind of unconscionable and nihilistic med

  Thus he had to access offices such as the Job Centre and Housing Benefits Office.   Yes, in effect, Kazaliwa, if he is going to make it to standing on his own two feet, as it were, had to be sufficiently pragmatic, and have an accommodation with, and deal with 'Babylon', however reluctantly.  As not to acknowledge the need for such a strategy and tactic could and can only lead him into what could prove have been a series of avoidable detours, cul de sac and going around in circles. And so it was, that Kazaliwa made his first attempt at living on his own and weathering the challenges which his endeavour threw up.  Challenges such managing and coping with keeping your room tidy and healthy, especially in cold winter nights and days.   Challenges such contending with a kitchen, toilet and shower which was shared by multi-occupants.  Challenges such as getting rid of the communal rubbish. Challenges such as coping with other tenants who refuse to 'pull their weight', as i

  'War is not  a madness that leaders should force upon their people deceptively.  fter all, what can be worse than demanding that your people should sacrifice their lives and livelihoods for a leader's delusions of grandeur, which is neither realisable, or, if it is, the realising of it is worse than the pre-existing reality?' But without first considering how it/we are going to get back out of the river or hole, or what hazards might be in them.  Now, we can understand and even appreciate how a people, a nation that has been attacked can or might seemingly make their first response an 'emotional one.'  For example, respond with  great anger and a desire to inflict maximum damage on the aggressor, in their attempt to, first defend themselves, and, secondly, punish the aggressor.  That is, as we might conclude, 'human nature', even though we can detect examples of it in other primates. However, this is not a defence which those who were not the known target

  A Very Big Congratulations to Team Ferrari and Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz for achieving P.1 and  P.2 position  at the end of the opening race of the Formula 1 Grand Prix 2022 Season in Bahrain of Sunday 20th March 2022. A Very Big Congratulations also for Team Mercedes and their racers, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, for making it to P.3 and P.4 respectively. Now, what can I say about this Grand Prix? Yes, I could say much, some of which might not really need to be said.  During the Practicing and Qualifying sessions, the dominant teams were Ferrari and Red Bull, with Team Mercedes unconvincingly trying to play 'catch the leaders.'  Similarly, during the Grand Prix, it seemed clear that all Team Mercedes and Hamilton and Russell could manage with their below par racing machines.   Was to race with all their professional acumen, keep away from unwanted potential car-to-car embraces.   And endeavour to put themselves in the right places at the right time to maximise w

  And so it is, that we do argue that we need to defend ourselves, but are constrained to attempt to do so by destroying the lives of others; even as they do contend that they must kill us and win the war in order to protect themselves from us.  So it is that, in order to be able to kill and maim us, they must make of us their enemies, even as we, in considering how they have attacked and are attacking us, must psyche up ourselves and perceive of them as our enemies.  Whether or not we are really able to convince ourselves that a people whom just yesterday were our friends, and/or just our neighbours, are now our enemies whom we must hate in order to kill them or just get used to killing our friends. So it is that, we, who do consider ourselves to be sane and more rational that our friends/'former friends' who want to destroy us over our politics and vision of the future and theirs.  Must also adopt seemingly similar insanity and skewed rationality in defending or seeking to de

  ' If war can ever be justified, arguably, it can mostly only be so on the basis of those who are being attacked, being justified in taking the necessary action to defend themselves. And as for the cost of war, it will always be too high for both the initiator and the defender,' Of course, such likely eventualities, the at times pointlessness of wars, the fact that today's reluctant enemies are likely to become friends tomorrow or at some point in the next generation or the ones after that.   The fact that trading between nations creates interdependence and promotes peace between them, are unlikely to prevent or abate Man's inherent episodic need or impulse to bring down destruction on our heads.  It would seem that we are no different from the tides of the sea at times.  That, whether we like it or not, we, us humans must bend and sway with the magnetic forces of the the lunar planets, the Moon, the Sun and the other planets and stars in our galaxy. Which is why our p