This fortnight the nation is enjoying all things Olympics. The Olympics being a great ancient Greek idea and ideals.

So it’s ironic that at a time of great Greek inspiration for the British peoples the even larger and more significant Greek idea of democracy is being trashed by the Conservative party. They announced that they couldn’t deliver an elected House of Lords. They’d rather keep it cosy hand picked selection of chums. The perfect retirement club for those Tory MP’s that find voters so annoying with a rump of Labour MP’s supporting them.

A week of elation and commiserations. A good week to bury such dismal backward step for UK democracy.