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Danny Boyle's New Britain: conform and celebrate, or risk being cast out of polite society
Tuesday, 31st July 2012
Did you enjoy the Olympics opening ceremony? If you didn’t, it’s probably wise to keep it to yourself. After all,…
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London, the Olympic ghost town
Tuesday, 31st July 2012
London is quieter than usual this week in spite of the Olympics, with many commuters staying at home or fleeing…
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London, the Olympic ghost town
Tuesday, 31st July 2012
London is quieter than usual this week in spite of the Olympics, with many commuters staying at home or fleeing…
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London, the Olympic ghost town
Tuesday, 31st July 2012
London is quieter than usual this week in spite of the Olympics, with many commuters staying at home or fleeing…
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Twitter does something really, really, really stupid - will they fix it?
Tuesday, 31st July 2012
You've heard by now that Twitter suspended Guy Adams, a journalist from the UK paper The Independent after Adams posted…
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Lord Shambolic Coe
Monday, 30th July 2012
London 2012 Olympics: Call to ‘name and shame’ no-shows - News - Scotsman.com Lord Coe dismissed the growing concern over…
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Maths Beats Cycling Any Day
Monday, 30th July 2012
Lizzie Armistead – Missing Out on Maths – image by johnthescone via Flickr Lizzie Armistead has won a silver medal…
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And the gold medal for most shameless bullshit goes to...
Monday, 30th July 2012
David Cameron, for this extraordinary nonsense:When he was first shown the images of James Bond actor Daniel Craig meeting The…
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Delegation Visit from Inner Mongolia, China
Monday, 30th July 2012
This afternoon Simon Parkinson, Head of Culture and Leisure and I gave a delegation of Sports Directors from Inner Mongolia…
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Olympic opening opus...
Monday, 30th July 2012
Well, maybe not an opus but certainly worth a read: the whole article is spot on IMHO: Ian Birrel in…
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Irony of the torch on London Road
Monday, 30th July 2012
I watched the torch go through London Road last week (23rd July). The irony is that its about a year…
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London 2012: Questioning the Olympic Ban
Monday, 30th July 2012
The International Olympic Committee has always attained the right to ban certain individuals or groups from the Olympics games. In…
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Danny Boyle's Britain is being dismantled brick-by-brick
Monday, 30th July 2012
This piece of mine appears over at The Week/The First Post. ON THE strength of Friday night's Olympic opening ceremony,…
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Media hype over Boris Johnson goes zoink
Monday, 30th July 2012
Following his barnstorming Hyde Park speech the papers are full of Olympic-sized hype about Boris at the moment.The Independent are…
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London 2012: how the Olympics could have been worth having
Monday, 30th July 2012
After Story A (traffic fears/ security chaos) and Story B (opening ceremony WOWS WORLD!) of the usual Olympic media cycle,…
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The Huddle at 1740
Monday, 30th July 2012
I am on the Huddle again tonight with Susan Wood and Josie Pagani. Our topics are: The Beast of Blenheim.…
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Danny Boyle backlash: what the Right know is being said at London Olympics 2012
Monday, 30th July 2012
In all the excitement of Danny Boyle's stunning London Olympics opening ceremony, I hadn't realised there might be a second…
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Mission Improbable - Photographing The Olympic Park
Sunday, 29th July 2012
Over the next few weeks, there will be tens of thousands of photographs taken inside the Olympic Park, so there…
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Heart4Harlow Olympic Festival: United around different flags
Sunday, 29th July 2012
All Nations on StageAll Nations representedToday there was a special Heart4Harlow event in the Park. Brought together by charismatic Town…
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