I don't fully agree with his PFI remark - in a PFI the money is payed upfront by the private sector into the scheme and repayed by the government with interest, in the 'fermiers' model the downpayment is paid by the private sector (fermier) to the state and then reclaimed from the public. The PFI is about taking some money off the balance sheet, the fermier model is about bringing in tax money to the state as a one-off payment. In both cases the private sector potentially ends up as the winner at the expense of the taxpayers but in the PFI the government is doing the repaying and in the fermier model the 'private sector' itself is the one having to ensure the repayments come in.
She has a PhD in physics. Her husband is a chemist though. But I agree, she could have been mentioned. Her approach to politics seems to be heavily influenced by her training as a scientist.
There seems to be this new format...whereby all these male profs reassure us regularly, that they and we are still human, by repeating the word...OK. as they rant on.
I absolutely disagree about Kenyans being better runners because of genes, I remember an Italian winning the 2004 Olympic marathon, Hicham El Guerrouj dominating the 5k back in the day, in my opinion it's for their extremely low weight which very few people in the west can compete with, other than Paula Radcliffe or even Gwen Jorgensen.
Perhaps Hicham also had genes favorable to long distance running. Genetics always varies from person to person, so it's a statistical effect. There may be no gene that Kenyans have that others don't, but they may have it in greater proportion.
