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It's not often you ask a question which completely silences some of Britain's leading minds on security.

But it happened this week at a briefing by Olympic security chiefs from the , and 2012.

Why, I asked, were there clauses in the which allow the police to raid the homes of people with anti-2012 posters in their front windows?

Chris Allison, the man in charge of the Games at the Met Police, had just told me that the police would not be using the powers in the Act to do this.

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I am often accused -- especially by people who contribute to this blog -- of being too negative about the Olympics and never looking at the positive side of the Games.

The criticism goes with the job. There are plenty of other people who have accused me of being in the pocket of 2012 and being too positive.

Neither is true, of course.

But when Sheffield teenager Simon Grunwerg contacted the blog a few months ago with questions about the Games, I decided to arrange a meeting for him with .

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On July 27, it will be exactly three years to go before the opening ceremony of the .

As I've , progress on the Olympic site is racing ahead and few people in the Olympic world are seriously worried that London won't be ready for the Games.

But some believe the cost of the Games - £9.3 billion - is too high in the middle of a recession.

At ´óÏó´«Ã½ London, we are interested to know what you think about the Games as we edge closer to the event.

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