Can’t quite get it that China delivered a breathtaking opening ceremony, can we? We nit-pick to lessen their achievement, maybe to reduce the inevitable gap between this and the kitsch we’re sure to go for in 2012. Let’s hear it for massed Morris dancers. So - the footprints in the sky were computer [...]
British badminton mixed-doubles pair, Nathan Robertson and Gail Ems, were down 17-12 in the third game of a key match. They are to retire after this games. An over-heated commentator describing their situation as ‘retire or get to the semi-final’ said: ‘It’s stark. It’s brutal. It’s reality.’
And a BBC commentator, wanting to talk up [...]
So, when she flew the Saltire for an immediate referendum on Scottish Independence, Wee Wendy was only ‘flushing out’ the SNP. Right? And El Gordo says she managed it. Right? So tell me… What, precisely, did she flush them out of? What have we discovered about them we didn’t already know? They’ve hardly been disguising [...]
