By James Emmett

It is very easy to scoff indignantly at the government'’s decision to increase funding for the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies by over 100 per cent. And when on the morning of 5th December David Cameron himself gave the go-ahead to raise the fireworks budget for London’s Olympics by £41 million, a nation did indeed sputter into its coffee. And with good reason. LOCOG, the organisers of the London Games, sensibly pledged in the immediate aftermath of the Beijing Olympics in 2008 that they would not attempt to compete with the scale, nor the cost, of their Chinese.. Read More »