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Sunday Times Magazine December 9th 2012
Round Robin – A missive from HM
Super Saturday Our year: Jessica, Mo and Greg. Plus: Andy Murray
Hilary Mantel – The Booker prize-winner’s unique take on 2012
Fifty shades richer – EL James on writing the book that changed her life
Class wars – Austerity Britain – are we really all in it together? By Rod Liddle
Marie Colvin My fun-loving friend in the flak jacket, by Helen Fielding
Obituaries Our final farewells
Happy and glorious – For once, it wasn’t all about the economy. The Olympics, the Paralympics and the jubilee combined to give us a feelgood summer to remember. Britain revelled and cheered as it soaked up its day in the sun, in spite of the weather. We thrilled to Super Saturday, marvelled at an octogenarian monarch still capable of jumping out of a helicopter – and, even more surprisingly, strangers on the Tube started talking to each other. Elsewhere, the Middle East continued to implode: Assad escalated his bloody civil war in Syria, and the intractable Gaza conflict flared up again. In the US, Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc, but also helped to blow President Obama back into office. Meanwhile British politics remained fiercely partisan, with the country mired in an economic quagmire. Yet, for that long, extraordinary summer all our divisions were forgotten
84 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age
