The creative director of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, the engagingly named Thomas Jolly, made clear at the outset that it was intended to be a "celebration of cultural, linguistic, religious and sexual diversity in France".
Unfortunately, the one discernibly Catholic element of the ceremony turned out to be a calculatedly offensive parody of the Last Supper in which drag queens playing the Apostles – with the fat Christ figure crowned – were ranged at a table that doubled as a catwalk.
