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There's some great music and film making in this documentary.

70,000 (out of 240,000 applicants) were selected as volunteers for the Olympics. Individualism and the end of civil society in 'the west'? Nah, don't think so! After the Madrid bombs it is estimated that up to 20% of the population came out on the streets on one day, singing: "a people united will never be divided". 

So, here's the dope: countries in which the nation-state has had a poor run and/or those in which markets are weak are only apparently more individualistic. If truth be told-to take up an old point made by Gellner-those societies are prone to be more chaotic and more likely to be governed by autocrats (the old, "princely" form of power).

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Lovely tributes to Freddie Mercury and to John Lennon last night.