Imagine the culture war the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony would spark now | Charlotte Higgins

It still makes me cry. Especially, perhaps, the very first moments, before it really began, when skeins of filmy blue fabric rippled across the excited crowd to the sound of Nimrod from the Enigma Variations – Elgar at his truest, most melancholic self. Looking back on it now, it really was the music of the

of the London Olympics, 10 years ago today, that was at the heart of Danny Boyle’s brilliant and bonkers production….