To the left, the economic spoils of the Olympic Games
Economics Editor Faisal Islam blogs on the economic hangover of the Olympic Games.
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Economics Editor Faisal Islam blogs on the economic hangover of the Olympic Games.
A senior military officer claims it could take the armed forces two years to recover from the extra deployment of troops for the Olympics.
The unprecedented security operation for the Olympic Games resulted in just one anti-terror arrest among a total of 276 during the 22-day policing operation.
With warnings of inadequate security and traffic chaos, the doomsayers were having a field day in the run-up to London 2012. And then the Games began.
Relations within the coalition grew significantly worse today, with Conservative sources in Whitehall admitting defeat on the coalition’s plans for Lords reform.
Locog is now monitoring the number of tickets used after an abundance of empty seats at the weekend, and will put returned tickets on sale the night before events.
Mitt Romney isn’t just meeting political leaders on his visit to London – he’s doing some serious fundraising too. But his trip didn’t get off to the best of starts.
The Home Office has said that it will go to court to seek an injunction preventing a strike by border staff which has been called for the eve of the Olympic Games.
The Olympic torch is to be abseiled down to the Tower of London by a Royal Marine commando to start its journey around the capital.
Olympic visitors to London could face long airport queues as border staff, and other Home Office personnel, vote to go on strike in a dispute over pay and cuts.
Olympics organisers are cutting parts of the opening ceremony to ensure it finishes in time for spectators to get home using public transport.
With today’s opening of the M4’s “Games lane” to accommodate an influx of Olympic athletes, motorists faced morning rush hour queues reportedly up to 32 miles long.
The first of the Olympics Games lanes comes into operation on Monday – on the M4, which has only just reopened following repairs.