Talk about coming back down to earth with a bump! The ecstatic cheers from the Olympic crowds had not died away before the teaching unions declared they were taking industrial action.
For a country that has always prided itself on the fundamental probity of its police, yesterday was a day of shock and disillusion.
MITCH FEIERSTEIN: Last week, the Bank of England declared its intention to print another £50 billion, bringing the Bank's total money printing to about one quarter of British GDP. But no one cares.
STEVE DOUGHTY: Getting divorced is a painful and difficult thing. You probably hadn't worked that out for yourself, so a quango stuffed with eminent lawyers and judges has taken it upon itself to tell you so.
SIMON HEFFER: Once we know if these bones are in fact Richard III's, we need to decide whether a more dignified resting-place than a council car park is suitable for a man who was the last truly English king.
MATTHEW ELLIOTT: Today's research from Big Brother Watch is a remarkable incitement of how out of control surveillance has become in modern Britain.
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: My own experience is that I have stayed fairly constant in the values and principles given to me by my parents. What has changed is my view on how they can best be put into practice.
STEPHEN WRIGHT: In crime journalism, it is right you are sometimes affected by what you see. It is nothing to be ashamed of. It proves you are human.
JANICE ATKINSON-SMALL: The Left cannot bear that she won three elections. They cannot bear that Margaret Thatcher is recognised as one of the greatest figures of the 20th century.
WILLIAM FORBES: Apaches need a lot of expensive support and cost £46,000 per flight hour. Components are given a shorter life and tend to be replaced more frequently than those on fixed-wing aircraft.
MELANIE PHILLIPS: While the US snubs Israel, its sole ally in the Middle East against those who wish to destroy the west, they are about to roll out the red carpet for Iran’s President Ahmadinejad.
SANDRA PARSONS: Peaches, with her phone clamped to her ear even as she picks up her fallen baby, demonstrates an even more frightening consequence of our digital obsession: that we would rather lose our connection to the real world than our connection to technology.
QUENTIN LETTS: The mood was the same as when David Cameron apologised for Bloody Sunday: sober, glum acknowledgement as today's political Establishment admitted lapses by a bruter age.
CRAIG BROWN enlightens with 12 things you didn't know about the Queen's pets...
ADRIAN HILTON: This glorious year of Diamond Jubilee and Olympic and Paralymic Games has restored some substance and meaning to a great British institution: long may it reverberate in our national memory.
MICHAEL HANLON: We can be almost sure that most alternative medicine is just that - 'medicine' that is alternative to the stuff that works.
SONIA PURNELL: I rather admire how Johnson has been consistently bullish about the Games over the past couple of years even when the doubters seemed to have the upper hand.
LINDSAY JOHNS: Depending on who you ask, homophobia within the black community is either a dirty secret, the ultimate taboo, or something which white liberals are too scared to talk about, for fear of being deemed racist.
Should you want a glimpse of a nightmare future, play back Andrew Marr's Sunday BBC TV interview with Vince Cable and Ed Balls. The two were smirking and stroking each other - politically, I mean - like showbiz luvvies on a reality show.
ANDREW PIERCE: If this group is successful, it should operate as a thorn in the side of the Cameron leadership which steadfastly ignores the views of its natural supporters.
JULIA MANNING: If we start thinking about what we can do both for ourselves and for our communities, relying less where we can on the State, then we will have an attitude that honours the games makers.
ANNABELLE FULLER: Heroin addiction helps fund the Taliban. It helps fund people who kill and maim our troops: people like Ben Parkinson (pictured) and Derek Derenalagi.
WILLIAM FORBES: If the Government’s first duty is the Defence of the Realm, then it must follow that the MoD is the most important Department of Government.
Here it is!
Apple unveils TALLER and THINNER iPhone 5 made of glass which comes with new panoramic camera feature
American ambassador Christopher Stevens killed as gunmen attack U.S. consulate in Libya
Victims died during a rocket attack
No motives, no suspects and an investigation that could take TEN YEARS
French police admit they’re baffled by Alps murders
So shameless
Mother stands by the thug who raped law student after she was thrown off bus for the want of 20p
TUC chief will receive £100,000 'golden goodbye' when he retires later this year - four times the average salary
Brendan Barber will retire
The real story of me and Amanda Knox
Ex-boyfriend lifts the lid on whirlwind romance and their 'odd behaviour' as he insists they didn't kill Meredith Kercher
Families of Hillsborough victims pray for answers as independent report is published today
Fizzy drink cleared as one of your five a day
Outcry as watchdog backs McDonald’s health claims
Andy Murray, the £100m man
U.S. Open champion set to earn a fortune after first grand slam triumph but celebrated with just a soft drink (and No.1 fan Kim)
Fury over Clegg 'bigot' slur on gay marriage opponents
Church leaders attack offensive remark
Driver and two passengers killed and others suffer 'life-changing' injuries after coach returning from Bestival music festival hurtles off A3
Revealed
How George W. Bush was given SEVEN warnings about threat from Bin Laden in months before 9/11
Kate wears kimono-style dress in Singapore as she and William visit orchid created for Princess Diana
Part of Jubilee tour
'Everything I do breaks but we fix it quickly'
Zuckerberg faces his critics for the first time after disastrous IPO and reveals the future of Facebook
Greece tells Germany: You owe us money for crimes committed during Nazi occupation
Working group has been set to scour old archives
'There was no sign of life. I leaned over the little girl. I thought she was dead'
Horrific account of hiker who was one of first on scene at shootings in Alps
RUTH LEA: The government’s 'green policies' are undoubtedly adding to everybody’s electricity bills, whether domestic bills (particularly disadvantaging the lower paid and pensioners) or business bills.
THOMAS FLEMING: The Democrats were right in the first place when they took God out of their godless party's platform, but an even better idea is to take God out of the politics of Israel.
SIMON RICHARDS: The news that some unknown, time-serving MP has been shifted from their position is less likely to excite your average voter than many politicians and political commentators think.
GLENYS ROBERTS: My guess is this brilliant new initiative to cover the remaining open spaces in concrete will once more pit the haves against the have-nots.
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