What she could never be was ugly, clumsy, or just a man in drag.

ECONOMIST: Danny La Rue

Between television programmes, viewers can watch an empty room, into which a man walks, picks up a guitar, strums a few clumsy chords and walks out again.

ECONOMIST: Big Brother, big splash

They were aided by the harsh dismissal of Australia's key man Tim Cahill, given a straight red card for a clumsy but hardly malevolent challenge on Bastian Schweinsteiger on 55 minutes.

BBC: Germany 4-0 Australia

I've been talking to the man behind Street View, Luc Vincent - via the rather clumsy medium of a Google Hangout - and asking him about the project's ambitions. (Our edited interview is above - but you can see the full version here).

BBC: Google Street View - a closer look