I know, it's not really about property, but it's about London, and the Rat and Mouse has an ongoing interest in the Olympic story. Today, we know more about how exactly the Olympic flag will be handed to the Brits at the closing of the Beijing games. From today's Guardian:

With Gordon Brown and the Chinese leadership due to attend the event on 24 August, the prospect of diplomatic embarrassment looms.

You call that embarrassment? That's nothing compared to how the same committee responsible for choosing what looks like a middle-class 8-year-old's vision of gang graffiti as the London 2012 logo is planning to mark the hand-over. Continuing the London-as-Europe's-capital-of-gang-culture theme, the event will be celebrated with a performance by Zoo Nation, a street dance troupe best known for their Into The Hoods show, set on the fictional Ruff Endz Estate. Now, the Rat and Mouse is as interested in keeping it real as the next property blog, but since when did keeping it real involve the uber-privileged white, middle-class deciding it was appropriate to welcome the world's sporting communities to London by celebrating under-privelege, and doing so by borrowing the visual, dance and musical language of America? Wonder how these guys feel about that?

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