Be careful what you celebrate

Glasgow, Byres Road, 17:31, Friday 8 June 2012. A child cries as crowds await the arrival of the Olympic Flame...'the Torch'...'the Fascist Flame' as it has been called.

Heralded as a moment for celebration, the modern torch relay was invented as a Nazi propaganda tool. Footage from the relay was a key part of Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda documentary Olympia. The torch was the key symbol of the British Tory Party for many years.

even more ridiculous