On air: Are protestors ruining the Olympics?

Is this what you have in mind for the Olympics? A torch-holder surrounded by Chinese ‘flame attendants’ who in turn are being helped by police while protestors noisily voice their opposition to Chinese policies and try and get to the torch. An event intended to hold 3000 people at the end of the procession, was attended by 300. That was London yesterday, much the same is playing out in Paris today. So who to blame?

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Thanks to all of you who kept the global conversation going over the weekend with Ros moderating from his trawler off the Cornish coast. Technology’s a great thing isn’t it ?

Hard to move away from the arresting images of the Olympic torch making it’s journey across London yesterday. It reminded one texter to 5 Live of “It’s a Knockout” and it was difficult to know, watching it,  whether it was a brilliant exercise in freedom of speech, or a daft farce (as opposed to a sensible farce, obviously).