Britain's Olympic lift won't last For the past two weeks the nation has been engaged in something akin to a group hug over the undoubted success of the London Olympics. Team GB have done better than expected and amassed enough medals to make Britain seem a nation of high achievers. This has been reflected in the BBC's blanket coverage of the event, which early on abandoned objectivity for jingoism to the point where on day eight of the Games - when Team GB won six golds - you could have been forgiven for expecting a squadron of Lancaster bombers to fly over the Olympic stadium to the theme from Dambusters. The uplift the Games have given to the nation is undeniable, as has been the extent to which the likes of David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the government as a whole have sought to extract as much political capital from this event as they possibly can. Cameron in particular would appear to have lost all sense of perspective as he sets about using the event as a launchpad for the promotion of competitive sport in schools, equating Britain's future prosperity with sustained Olympics success. Running faster, throwing farther and jumping higher are the ingredients of a healthy society all of a sudden, one in which everything will be rosy and bright if we can just harness the competitive spirit and achievements of Team GB. This of course chimes with the fulminating one-nation Tory "we're all in this together" mantra, the