Posts by Louise Tolman

BBC races away with five-year F1 rights deal

Stop the cock!

Let's hope that James Allen doesn't transfer - Pitpass gives me hope that they've already picked a reasonable commentary team so there should be no reason to have to suffer his smug inanity any longer.

Won't be sorry to say goodbye to what has become The Lewis Hamilton Show - just hope the BBC can resist the temptation next year to spunk off about him at every opportunity. Every race weekend we're shouting "Get a room" at that creepy-looking Steve Ryder as he gazes soulfully into the eyes of the Wunderkind. I think Lewis is a star but I'm actually interested in other teams and drivers too. Poor little Ant barely got a mention last week.

I also never EVER want to see a crap "feature" headed by that spoiled brat hyperspam Tamara Ecclestone again. Nor am I bothered about Kelly Osborne's uninformed views on Grands Prix. Or any ligging sleb's views, for that matter.

UK gov unveils 'Innovation Nation' plans

Despair

They could have come up with something more innovative than "innovation nation" - the BBC used it in 2003 for some tedious drivel or other and there's at least three books of that title.

Basically what it seems to be saying is that although there is a massive amount of innovatory talent mooching round the UK at the moment, they are not innovative enough to go online or (heaven forfend) pick up a Yellow Pages to see whether there's anyone locally under "Knowledge Base Institutions" that they could hook up with.

Being a girl, though, I admit to being all agog to see what the talent harnesses look like, and what colour they are.

For Christ's sake, if this is what our taxes are being spent on, no wonder we're on a par with Hungary and Pakistan.

PS Time for an icon refresh I think.

The terrorists I party with

Fear is the mindkiller

Great article - your analysis seems spot on to me. I'm glad this sort of journalism is being posted to tech sites as well as political commentary sites like Spiked.