Firstly the three ring circus of chinese thugs and two rings of UK police whatever seemed a metaphor for how the 2012 Olympics will be to most London’s e.g. look but only from afar, pay for it but don’t partake in it, We will protect an idea not protect you.

But the funniest bit was the next day when (Met police) Commander Joe Kaye was on one of the breakfast programmes reverently saying ‘how his men had protected the flame’. It’s a ing flame for **s sake! It is a meaningless symbol but he seemed to hold it in awe like the Holy Grail or a promise kept by a politician. I couldn’t help think of the scene in the ‘Life of Brian’ where Brian loses a sandal and suddenly that is held in reverence by the misguided followers.