Posts Tagged Olympics
An Olympic sized error
Posted by David Merlin-Jones in Economics, Politics, Tax and Spend on 27/01/2011
Here’s a cheap joke –
‘What’s the difference between manifesto pledges and promises made to unelected sports organisations?’
You can only break the former…
Funny? Probably not, but apt given this is the main objection to the better Spurs bid for the Olympic Stadium.
Political Games
Posted by Pete Quentin in European Union on 31/03/2008
The EU’s leg of the Olympic relay race has begun and a couple of mistimed exchanges when passing the baton (buck) of foreign policy has already left it without a hope of winning gold, writes Claire Daley.
As the Olympic torch shuffles its way across the continents, a parallel relay race is taking place within the EU. Actually with more characteristics of a giant game of ‘hot potato’, member states are passing the buck on an apparently “apolitical issue” – China’s handling of protesters in Tibet.