Dubai, Lincoln, Suzuka and don't forget Kim
A strange weekend is in store. The beginning of the flat season, with rockets perhaps whistling over the Dubai World Cup; the Japanese F1 with more pre-race noise than usual; and then no more F1 for over a month - why; and the clocks go forward, which always confuses me and seems so pointless. But overarching all this, and ghasting my flabber, was reading that not only is the man who made London the most horrible place to live of any major city in the World going to become Lord Pharisaical of Supercilious-upon-Smug, but that The Harmer has now appointed more Lords than the last four Tory PMs combined.
That particular Khanage is designed to keep Sneaky Sadiqy quiet, post-May Disaster Day - but will apparently also come with a Cabinet position; “… he is simply too valuable a political thinker to not have contributing blah blah”) in return for him not campaigning for Ange or Burnham - or indeed for himself! The aim is to take effective control of the Upper Chamber post-May and then ram through the revised Leftist agenda, designed to bring the Union funds back on stream.
Socialism’s relationship with democracy has always been ambivalent, and as Maggie Thatcher pointed out, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
However, in Japan, the F1 money-tree continues to flourish, and at Suzuka, it isn’t just the cherry blossoms that are out causing gasps - there are plenty of sharpened egos and garage tensions on show with the “new car” honeymoon period surely over.
Mercedes is the team everyone loves to hate right now —
