I just created a Facebook group called brits for Paris 2024. Boris Johnson recently joked about London hosting another Olympiad within the next twenty years. Such a suggestion is, f course, quite mad: no doubt london now has both the infrastructure and expertise to host the games, but we simply could not afford it. It also struck me that, while part of me does like the idea of living in an Olympic city during the Games again, if london were awarded another olympics in the next twenty years, you’d have to feel sorry for the french. After all, they bid for the games of 2012 too; therefore now that the first part of london 2012 is coming to a successful end, I say we brits should get behind the paris bid for the 2024 olympics. It seems only fair, given their bid for the 2012 games lost to us (much to their chagrin, having also had their bids for previous olympics turned down) and that, by then, it will have been a full century since Paris last hosted the Olympics in 1924. So given that we can’t really expect to host another olympics for another fifty years, and that we had so much fun with these ones, we might as well get behind the bid of a city which we can get to easily, but whose games we won’t have to pay for. And anyway, if we had to put up with this shit, so should the french!