The Times Supplement: Working Towards 2012

The first of many supplements, The Times Supplement, dated 17 May 2006, offers a fairly comprehensive coverage of some of the key issues.  Its coverage of historical information is particularly interesting.

The main shortcoming of the Supplement, in my view, is the lack of coverage of Culture and its importance for 2012 and the period of up to ten years after the Olympics, described in the cultural sector as the 'legacy'. It would have been helpful to see a coverage of what the five London Boroughs which are hosting the Olympics, and indeed the rest of London will be doing to develop their cultural provision for 2012, how international visitors and the local audiences will be entertained and most importantly, how local communities will take part in developing cultural programmes.

Readers who missed the supplement can still read it at www.timesonline.co.uk/towards2012