A Cultural Olympiad? Great idea - now give us the money

Guardian Unlimited Arts: "I have lost count of the meetings I have attended to discuss the Cultural Olympiad, the showcase of British arts and culture planned to run alongside the 2012 Olympic Games. Meetings with the organising committee - LOCOG - with the head of the culture programme, the excellent Bill Morris; with fellow institutions planning joint Olympic projects; with rival institutions guessing if they were about to steal a march and a package of funding from under our noses; meetings with the London Cultural Consortium and many others. The hot air generated would fill the Millennium Dome."