It is reported that Diane Thompson, the chief executive of Camelot the British lottery operator, has been approached to run Britain's Olympic Games in 2012.
Ms Thompson has been praised for her skills in managing Camelot, whose ticket sales are experiencing their longest period of growth since the national lottery was set up in 1994.
Advertisements for chief executive of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) have closed, and formal interviews are due to take place in December.
Camelot already has links with the Olympics. It has been given the job of raising £1.5BN, over the next seven years, from ticket sales towards the games.
This is an "interesting" use of lottery money, as the lottery was originally set up to raise money for the arts, heritage, health and education.
The highly commercialised Olympics is as far removed from these causes as one could possibly imagine.
I fail to see why lottery should be wasted in this way.
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