Hopes and demands that the glory of the Games lead to a golden age of sports participation are a long way from being fulfilled

✒Let's hope Rupert Murdoch didn't pick up, while in London to catch the Olympics as Boris Johnson's guest, the inevitable nickname for NewsCo, the newspapers and books assets that will be spun off when News Corp demerges. As it brings together the businesses where profits are under threat, Monkey hears…

Two of the London mayor's Games-related schemes to get unemployed Londoners into work have failed so far to win gold

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