VICE takes an in-depth look at the British public's reaction to The Games in London and the negative impact it's having on certain people's lives.
One thing that's great about the Olympics is all the fabulous regeneration in East London. We went to meet all the lucky locals, such as the residents of the Carpenter's Estate, who have been evicted from their homes to make way for the Games. Some of them even got moved to Stoke! Lucky them. Marginally more hyped about the whole thing are the competitors in the Boris Johnson themed "wiff-waff" tournament (that's ping-pong to you, me, and everyone besides Boris).
You know what East London's always been missing? Temporary military installations! Luckily the government have been tooling-up and flooding the area with troops armed with all sorts of massive weaponry. In part 2 we meet the founder of the Design Museum, Stephen Bayley, whose aesthetic sensibility compels him to destroy a lot of Olympic merchandise.
You know what East London's always been missing? Temporary military installations! Luckily the government have been tooling-up and flooding the area with troops armed with all sorts of massive weaponry. In part 2 we meet the founder of the Design Museum, Stephen Bayley, whose aesthetic sensibility compels him to destroy a lot of Olympic merchandise.
The 2012 London Olympics have been billed as "The Greenest Games the World Has Ever Seen," but, well, it's not as simple as that. In part 3, we take a look at the claims corporate sponsors are using as a PR stunt to cover up their checkered environmental and humanitarian pasts. Meanwhile, a monster has been spotted eating birds in the River Lea. We call in a cryptozoologist to investigate.
It's not just politicians, capitalists, sportsmen, and protestors who
are obsessed with the Olympics. Pornographers, gangsters, and alien
conspiracy theorists are pretty excited about it too.
