We have been thinking about the Olympics this week. Everyone, even that least sportsmanlike of our communications providers, BT, seems to be offering the chance to win free tickets - although it appears by some mad spark in the organisers brains that you only stand a chance of being able to buy tickets through the official channels if you have previously applied - in other words the chances of Joe Public being able to get tickets gets less and less the nearer the event looms.
This isn't about what we get to go to though. It's about who should be accorded the honour of lighting the flame.
Can there really be any doubt? Has this country ever sported a greater Olympian than Sir Steve Redgrave? Five gold medals. An olympic career longer than most of this year's spectators have lived.
If you agree - spread the word - who knows perhaps we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out?







