Used to keeping her eye on the behind the scenes wheeling and dealing that makes F1 a political melodrama, columnist Kate Walker weighs up the social cost of keeping certain drivers in the top flight... Several weeks ago, I read that the Venezuelan government had taken over one of the country's toilet paper factories. So acute were the shortages in the Latin American country that the equitable redistribution of loo roll had become a matter of national importance. Like most of the countries in our fair world, Venezuela has something of an issue with income disparity. But unlike, say India, Brazil, or the United Kingdom, Venezuela has a socialist government whose priority is supposed to be...
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