Her Majesty the Queen does not get this level of security and the commercialism and favouritism of it all is so rampant and the way they treat anyone who they think is a threat such as a guy who was only taking a photo and got pushed into a hedge by one of the gorillas accompanying the torch when it was in Cornwall. You only have to see how far the ordinary public is kept away in many locations to wonder. They have backup lanterns with the flames galore, yet you would think it was the only flame on earth.

Good will has been made very thin in many quarters from the unjustified paranoia.

I very rarely have a good "moan" but this is one of those occasions.