THE DOME RECONSIDERED

The press beat up on London’s hapless Millennium Dome in 2000. But “if the Dome was vacuous or meaningless – as has been claimed by newspaper editors who spent this year filling their pages with articles about Nasty Nick and The Weakest Link – well, so are most of the 6.5 million people who attended and had a rare old time. Will posterity acknowledge their existence?” – The Telegraph (UK)