Torches

The Olympic ideal is neofascist bunkum. The 'Games' are recast nationalist oppositions. Drug fuelled, wholly unreal in their choosing of winners and losers, the Olympics debase the one activity that is truly global - sport and play.

The authoritarians of the Earth have instrumentalised playfulness, and produced a model of how global governance should be: the over-riding of local life and practices - from the small scale shutting of roads and stealing away sports and leisure facilities in everyday use, to the large-scale killing and maiming of protesters against their assertions of territorial power.

The Olympic torches burn to symbolise arrogant control over the people, the arbitrary allocation of our resources and our time, the arbitrary use of force against dissent.

London should not be involved in the celebration of tyranny, not today, and not four years from now.

Not ever.