Whingeing British gear up for Olympics nightmare

THERE are a few billboards about the place, but you certainly wouldn’t get the impression that London is completely in thrall to the Olympics.

The city is stuffed with gawking tourists as it always is and on the Tube and on the streets the amount of Irish accents — mostly in their twenties and middle-class — is striking.

London is one of those mega-cities which trundles on regardless of whatever major sporting event may be about to take place and so remains semi-detached from it.