Compare and contrast?

Well, I didn't need to be particularly prophetic when I suggested this time last year that we might well be talking about the Bahrain Grand Prix again.  I really think consideration should be given as to whether it should be taken off the calendar, as it is likely to cause controversy year after year.  Ironically this year the question of whether it should be run comes at the same time as the question is being raised of whether the London marathon should take place in view of what has happened in Boston.  Of course there is no comparison in the arguments - in Bahrain the issue is one of the oppression of free speech, whereas in London it is the assertion of our freedoms in the face of those who would try to deny them to us.