London Olympics - 1 Year to Go.

The opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics in London will begin at 19:00 on July 27th 2012. That means that yesterday was exactly one year before the start of the games. Britain marked the event by holding a pre-Olympics party in Trafalgar square where the medals were unveiled for the first time. It also provided an opportunity for the International Olympic Committee to come to Britain to inspect how preparations were progressing.

Apart from the obvious things like making sure the venues are being constructed on schedule and the transport plan is up and running a large part of these preparations was checking that the security plan is in place. So over the last couple of days Britain has seen the arrest of Republican dissident terrorists over the killing of the Catholic police officer Ronan Kerr and the arrests of computer hackers associated with the LulzSec network. Of course the hope was that the twin terror attacks in Norway would promote discussion about Islamic terrorism, Qaddafi funded Islamic terrorism and far-right groups like the English Defence League (EDL).