Danny Boyle’s Olympic Opening Ceremony last night was… surprisingly good. I was expecting something really quite naff, but aside from one of the BBC commentators misrepresenting Milton’s ‘dark satanic mills’ as a reference to the Industrial Revolution, and the inevitable wheeling out of the least talented Beatle (Sir Paul McCartney), it was actually pretty impressive. [...]

The 2012 London Olympics are underway, and already the organisers have come in for a considerable amount of criticism. If every critic is to be believed, then the 30th Olympiad is the least competent, worst-budgeted and most fascistic in the history of the Games. But I’m sure that can’tbe true… The games are already running ludicrously [...]

Nick Clegg is finally having his day (or two) in Parliament about to Lords Reform. This is something that many on the left in particular have been interested in for a while, and at a glance it seems like a no-brainer: the House of Lords is unelected, it’s full of rich old men who are [...]