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• Video: Boris Welcomes the Games, Cassetteboy brilliance

  This is really, really lovely. God bless cassetteboy.

   

• Carl Packman: the dodgy capitalism of the Olympics

  Carl Packman deconstructs where the Olympics are going and why we should have considered human dignity a vital part of the Olympic legacy.   We good people most fondly remember the Mexico City Olympics of 1968 for the sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the black athletes who took home […]

   

• Video: Greenwash Gold Awards

  The Greenwash Gold people who’ve been looking at the various environmental credentials of the Olympic sponsors held an award ceremony in Trafalgar Square. Watch the festivities, and then see them get arrested for spilling (green) custard.

   

• Video: The Olympics have been cancelled?

  On the streets of Manchester one video team tell passersby that the Olympics have been cancelled to find out people’s reactions.

   

• Monday’s Games round-up: stories from around the web

  A few of the Olympics stories that we’ve spotted out and about; Police pre-emptively arrest suspected graffiti artists. London Vandal and Vice. And in response we have a number of ad hoc artistic street thoughts. Buzz Feed. There’s a re-cycling graffiti wall seen at Wembley Matters. At demotix we see police […]

   

• Olympics resolution number one: be nice to people

  I’ll be honest – I’m an Olympics grump. Don’t get me wrong, I love watching people jump over things, kick balls, throw spears and race each other, although please don’t make me watch dressage – but the whole corporate, big money, delirious patriotism for sports no one particularly watches and […]

   

• Danny Bates: Is Another Olympics Possible?

  Danny Bates asks “is another Olympics possible?”   I’m not against the Olympics. The Olympic ideal of celebrating excellent achievement – in sport, arts and culture – is important. Unfortunately the 2012 London Games falls far from this ideal. So, as a longstanding resident of an Olympic Borough (Hackney), I’ll […]

   

• Music: Kilburn High Road – Jonny Granville

  While we’re singing about Kilburn, Jonny Granville has a different take on the place. Great stuff.

   

• Music: Kilburn (Sean Taylor)

  Let’s have alittle more London based music, this time by Sean Taylor. <iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/oloQqy6n_uE” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

   

• The Olympics are coming! Mega-round up.

  We have a bumper crop of Olympics links for you. Don’t worry – it’ll all be over soon; Mark Steel on why he’s for the Olympics, but not here. While in the Guardian we have a delightful etiquette guide for the Games. The Daily Mash have a great “history” of […]