While on the subject of the Olympics, there has been much discussion of whether public schools & higher socio-economic groups are over-represented in our team, especially among the medal winners. Did Gordon Brown have to agonise at all over whether to send a congratulatory message or go into a strop about it?
This morning I heard an interview with Louis Smith, the young man who won a bronze medal in gymnastics
It struck me that, as a useful corrective, somebody should do an analysis of how many of our Olympians come from one-parent or fractured families. That would really cheer everybody who has to put up with constantly hearing about how doomed they are to failure
