I was actually thinking of buying tickets for the Singapore Grand Prix, but have been put off, first by the outrageous prices they want to charge just for watching cars go by very very fast, and second by the disgraceful remarks by Bernie Ecclestone. Ecclestone, the F1 rights holder, has just been quoted as saying that Hitler was alright really because he got things done, or words to that effect [see http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/jul/04/bernie-ecclestone-interview-hitler-saddam]. Never mind genocide and world war, Hitler got the autobahns moving for sure. Mr Ecclestone, you are clearly a complete political fool. When you put the delightful Ecclestone next to the F1 President Max Mosley (son of fomer leader of the British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley, no less), it seems that this particular branch of motorsport is actually in the hands of crypto-fascist perverts; I still haven't forgotten Mosley junior's romp with a bunch of hookers dressed up in Nazi uniforms. Mind you, the British upper class in general seem to have issues on that front - step forward, Prince Harry. It's enough to make me a republican if I start thinking about it.