The 2012 event is all about one country, and one only. That country is England. The other countries in the British Isles have all along a cheered in unison purely because they didn’t want to be ridiculed as killjoys and patronised by the largest nation in these islands – in particular by its mean-minded tabloid press.
The Independent on Sunday described the east London event as being borne along on “a shameful myth”.
