It's sponsored by McDonalds and awash with flag-waving patriotism, so perhaps it's not really a surprise that Morrissey doesn't like London 2012 all that much.
But his latest monarchy-themed diatribe against the Games is hot stuff even for a man famously unafraid of venomous dispatches.
Writing on a fan blog, Morrissey slams the Olympics' "blustering jingoism", whilst suggesting that modern Britain is as swept up in propaganda as Nazi Germany.
A little bit of Godwin's Law in action, perhaps.
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