When I watch the James Bond sequence at the opening on 2012 Olympics, it just makes me smile and I glow with pride! This is the image of a confident country at ease with itself that values its culture, respects its institutions in a self-assured but not arrogant way. The opening sequence in the stadium was also brilliant if not a little bit over the top with the smoke stacks and nurses, but still showcasing a country proud of its achievements and its gift to the world. We mus

There is a great view from the top of the ‘Cheesegrater’, or the Leadenhall building to use its formal name, right there in the City of London. But when I was there on May 8, for the launch of the final report of the Intergenerational Commission from the Resolution Foundation, there was a distinct haze around Canary Wharf in the distance: was this dirty air or a temporary fog? It is not just the financial world either. There is another fog that surrounds the political world a