The public do not need lessons in cheering up. They do not need lectures or an endless issue of articles that should carry the headline ‘35 minutes in Stratford: an in-depth report’ from correspondents passing through at the speed of a javelin train.
And if some are unmoved by the Olympic experience, if they happen to believe this oligarch’s fortune of government cash could have been better invested elsewhere, if they have the raving hump with Olympic traffic lanes or rampant commercialism, or even if they just find sport a dreadful bore, they do not need to be branded curmudgeons, misanthropes or whingers.
They are citizens, too. They have rights. And they are as entitled to an opinion as any Press box cheerleader.
