Facing several ways

In the oddly-shaped world of Mail journalism, you can complain about the BBC putting its News make-up contract out to tender - and also complain when Fiona Bruce reads the news in glasses and without eye make-up because she has an eye infection.

You can be scandalised (or otherwise) that the BBC may give up F1 coverage (£60m a year) when its current contract ends in 2013.  You can compare that with £22m (over two years) for the rights to pop singing contest, The Voice, landed by BBC1 boss Danny Cohen.

Whatever your view, the Mail now runs an extraordinary number of BBC stories, which makes you think it needs Auntie as much as it seeks to despise it.

• The increasingly sensible Coleen Rooney has found similar problems with the Mail, after a lengthy review of her holiday bikinis by Maysa Rawi.