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Sunday Times Magazine December 23rd 2007
PART ONE: BRITAIN IN FOCUS
2007 THE YEAR IN PICTURES
Life hardly ever sticks to the script.
If Gordon Brown had to absorb that lesson this year, on discovering how pitiless the job of prime minister could be, he wasn’t alone. Heads rolled at the BBC after shows had misled viewers; returning soldiers found there were few to welcome them on the streets: and we woke up to the fact that ‘safe as houses’ meant nothing as Northern Rock crumbled. But some things remained constant: erratic weather, government incompetence, and disappointment with the England football team
RELATIVE VALUES – The flamboyant comedian Russell Brand and his mother, Barbara, talk about their close relationship
BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES – Giscard d’Estaing’s rise and fall, by his daughter
A LIFE IN THE DAY – The singer James Blunt
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