This weekend (Sunday night in the UK - Monday morning in Australia) sees the clinical and oral examinations for the Faculty of Homeopathy's VetMFHom post-graduate veterinary qualification. Candidates have worked long and hard, studying homeopathy for this exam and I wish them well on the day.

It will involve me in a night out of bed, on the video link, but it will be worth it to expand the influence and availability of veterinary homeopathy in the continent of Australia.

The best of good fortune to one and all.

Credit must go to Douglas Wilson and Megan Kearney, for organising it and for providing Facilities.

[Why not take a look at www.alternativevet.org while you're here?]

Belated congratulations to Lewis Hamilton, on his great achievement and on his realisation of a childhood ambition, last weekend in Brazil. No one can take away from him what he has done. Being World Champion in Formula 1 is a fantastic and tangible reward. I hope he is given the wisdom to handle the pots of money that will descend on him. He has a great family around him, which is a wonderful and stable platform for a young man like him.

As for the alleged 'racist' incidents, both at Barcelona, Spain last year and at Interlagos, Sao Paulo this year, those involved should be utterly ashamed of themselves and Formula 1 should be grown up enough to exercise the ultimate sanction, should any such incident happen again. It should not be ignored. The Grand Prix in the country should be cancelled for one year.

If that were the accepted consequence, the fans themselves would police it. Football (soccer) in Britain has grasped the bull by the horns on the issue. F1 cannot hide from it, however that man Bernie Ecclestone wants to dress it up.

Lewis Hamilton rightly deserves our respect and admiration.

(I usually keep off non-animal politics but this issue really gets my goat!)