“I have lost count of the meetings I have attended to discuss the Cultural Olympiad, the showcase of British arts and culture planned to run alongside the 2012 Olympic Games. … At the end of each meeting – and sometimes at the beginning – the inevitable question comes: ‘Is there a budget for the Cultural Olympiad?’ To date, the answer has been boringly predictable. … With just five years to go, with a year before London 2012 ‘owns’ the Olympic project, the arts world is still waiting for the Cultural Olympiad to be funded.”