Makes you proud to be British....
There was an article in the Guardian recently that if you want an opening ceremony done right give it to a totalitarian dictatorship. It has a point. Those countries often have a point to make about how perfect life is in their country, how great are their achievements, etc. Basically we are XXXX, hear us roar. In the unlikely event that Pyongyang ever gets the Olympics I have no doubt that we would have a perfect mass coordinated opening ceremony dazzling in its immensity, probably followed by the atmospheric explosion of a couple of small nuclear devices. Just to make the point. The point is that the opening ceremony of an Olympics should show the host countries core values to the rest of the world. Also hide its imperfections under the mass of synchronised pyrotechnics and orchestrated participation. Beijing for example produced a ceremony which was all about the greatness of new China, and no mention of Tiananmen square or the Mao pogroms. So what statement did the London 2012 op...