The Olympics should be a celebration of greatness. It should be about what is best in Man. The Brits conquered and ran a huge part of the world, all from a tiny island with no natural resources. Dancing nurses? WGAS?
Yes! That would be the rational approach. But modern Britain has been led down the "primrose path," with much the same idiocy that has virtually destroyed a large segment of modern American education. Here is my analysis of the false dogma, as reflected on our side of the Atlantic--of course with one Brit included: Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education. Note, especially the segment on Gordon Allport, the Harvard "Fellow Traveler," who considered favoring your own people as an unacceptable form of prejudice.
Britain needs a contemporary Dean Swift, who would pen some new voyages for Gulliver, to adequately describe what Britain has become. Can she yet be redeemed? I wish I knew. She obviously is bedeviled with her own Gordon Allports & other crackpots.
William Flax