Ruari McCallion

Freelance writer B2B manufacturing technology etc. Novelist public speaker stroke & cancer survivor. Views expressed are my own. RT ≠ endorsement

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@Javidsubhan3 @hiitsmemooneh Er... I don't think so.

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@Haggerst1Martin @thetysem Not THE best but he was among the best.

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@EdRaposo_ @thetysem A Gordon Murray-designed Brabham with a BMW engine capable of delivering over 1000bhp was the "third best car"?

Seriously?

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@MarcosBarberato @thetysem Show us you know nothing about motor racing without overly saying so.

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@thetysem Mansell, 1985, 86, 87, 88, 91.

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@AllisonPearson Investment in wind power DOES create quality jobs, @AllisonPearson.

Thousands of them. In China, Korea, Germany, Sweden, etc. But not in the UK, which is a bit of a downside, it must be conceded.

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@clauscapu @enrivalti @PatriaEnAlerta It's automatic. Latae sententiae.

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@VoidBornL I take it you realise that Jim Clark was so good, he was so far above mere mortals, that he is out of sight.

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@pattif21 Yes, it's true.

Another illustration of the contempt the ruling class has for the rest of us - including those who think they are in charge.

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@grok @ViennaFranconia @666777ll 😂😂😂 Okay, thanks.

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@grok @ViennaFranconia @666777ll Could that be summarised as "frightened, with feelings of inadequacy"?

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@grok @ViennaFranconia @666777ll Why do people claim to believe such rubbish and what drives them to disseminate it, @grok?

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@ViennaFranconia @666777ll @grok How many of those events were faked, @grok?

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@grok @YeahRyy @SGautreau29553 @666777ll Cat got your tongue, YeahRyy?

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@Cele__Audu Looks like a remake of Point Blank.

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@TSykes63 @isherphi1980 @croesusfiles How many Oval races did Fittipaldi win in his first season in Indy?

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How many Williams drivers won two World Championships with the team?

How many were still with the team a years after winning the Championship?

There's a great deal to respect and admire Frank Williams for but he wasn't very good at handling his drivers. I'm not sure he really understood what sponsors wanted, either.

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@JoaoVitorStuchi @croesusfiles On his day, Mansell could beat anyone - Anyone. Including Senna, as he demonstrated on several occasions.

He didn't have quite enough "days", unfortunately, but, with a bit less bad luck, he could have won four World championships.

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@Xtopher_Uzo Yes, I do.

Before, not after.

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The wall to wall coverage of David Walliams and Russell Brand mustn't mean stories like this are overlooked.

Maggie Oliver is in the High Court today taking the government to court for failing to protect victims of child sexual abuse. Taxpayers funded a 7 year long public inquiry into child sexual abuse that cost over £200 million. Survivors were forced to relive their trauma, a staggering multitude of institutional failures were revealed and 20 recommendations were made to protect children. The government's defence is that it's not legally obliged to implement those recommendations.

So the public pays for inquiries, victims suffer all over again and the government can simply choose not to act? What even is the point of an inquiry if its findings can just be ignored?

This comes against the backdrop of the grooming gangs scandal. We'll never truly know the full scale of just how many children were plied with alcohol, drugged, raped, abused and trafficked. Sure, there have been some convictions, but only after lengthy investigations and years of delay. But how many of those complicit in covering up the institutional abuse have been arrested and jailed? Senior police officers, MPs, local councils and social workers were all involved. And still are.

The fact that no one is in prison for covering up and allowing the rape and abuse of possibly hundreds of thousands of girls in towns and cities across the UK is a disgrace and a stain on this country. Every person in authority who enabled this must be held to account. And it isn't racist to speak about this and I'm tired of the insinuation that it is, whenever there's posts about it. That attitude is exactly what's helped the abuse of these vulnerable girls to be covered up for so long.

These rape gangs are our nation's shame and it must never be forgotten.

Here are two videos. One from this morning and one from six years ago.

It seems nothing has changed.