Hardly sporting - Telegraph There is an art to booing. Like marriage, it is not to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly. Booing is hard enough to get right at the theatre or opera. The performers have done their best. Ought you to boo? This week, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was booed at the Paralympics. He wasn't speaking; he was there to present medals to winning runners. The booing was a misjudgment, for the setting was a mirror image of the occasion when Tony Blair was booed as he tried to deliver a political speech to the WI. "This is just not on," a WI member said of his speech at the time. We are not here for this. The same could have been said of the booers at the Olympic stadium. It was no political rally. As one spectator commented: "The true spirit of the Games went out of the window." It was a shameful sound.