Danny Boyle’s Neverland

Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the London 2012 olympics was a triumph. An absolute triumph. I would normally hesitate to lavish such uncritical praise in public, but the potential to get this wrong was so strong, such a whirlpool of possible failure, that to steer such a certain and confident course deserves nothing less than […]

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Whose Games is it Anyway?

I used to be excited about the London Olympics. It was a measured, rational excitement (I don’t do giddy), but I was definitely looking forward to them. I was also happy to argue with those that said that they would be a waste of money, or doomed to fail, but in the last few months […]

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