Arts Council, National Environmental Research Council, academic research from archaeology to whatever ology of your choice begins with z, the National Archives, heritage works of just about every hue, not to mention stealthy increases in taxation (yet again)...I hope that someone with more time and energy than me is keeping track of all these contributions to the bottomless pit of 2012, if only to haunt the fatherless sons who are doing this to every last one of us for the benefit of their own tawdry political kudos. Get it in soon chaps, 'cos the buggers will be making it a criminal offence to say a word against it before long. The organisers (now there's a contradiction in terms) have already tried to sue an author for using the word olympic in a title.
Keep smiling, it's only pain.