Olympics Articles

As a Brit in the USA, watching the Olympics has been a chore. The much-maligned NBC coverage that misses moments of silence for 7/7 does not care for any team but the USA and refusing to broadcast live coverage except for ad-heavy live streaming is appalling. One can...

There is a sea-change across London: watching the Games on the big screen in Hyde Park, at Wembley, on the banks of Eton Dorney, there is a new mood of optimism and unity. It’s like the entire city is pleasantly drunk; everyone’s in a good mood – just yesterday, I had...

Soon this glorious summer of medals will turn into a winter of three discontents – no growth except in poverty, cuts in public services that will bite, and poisonous politics as Tories and Lib Dems bicker while Boris plans Dave's ousting. There is Team GB everywhere...

Boris Johnson is certainly having a ‘good Olympics’. The newspapers are full of summer stories about his potential threat to Cameron’s leadership. I’m not convinced that Mayor Johnson will become Tory leader or prime minister. First, as Steve Richards pointed out in a...