Recently a senior medic - a man in whose hands I'd put my life with no hesitation - drew me a chilling picture of the future of the NHS. It wasn't a picture whose colours were political, not party political anyway.

BBC: You can't have it both ways...

Street vendors are doing a roaring trade selling t-shirts, whistles and plastic trumpets, while others are busy painting people's faces the colours of the national flag.

BBC: South Korea reaches fever pitch