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Sunday Times Magazine May 9th 2010
Daisy Waugh – As our columnist remembers the lows of getting high on drugs, she hits on an inspiring way of kicking a bad habit that ruins her Sunday nights
Short Story – Obsessed with a certain TV cookery show, a woman embarks on her own whisky-fuelled culinary adventure. By Jackie Kay
Relative Values – Mandy Smith, ex-wife of the Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, and her sister, Nicola, on their wild times and why they’re happy to live without men
A Life in the Day – Reginald D Hunter, stand-up comic, talks about pancakes, dreams and his type of woman
Chat Room – Al Murray witters on about his Pub Landlord act, and what he would do as PM; the singer who can’t go the distance; and our philosopher asks: can you hurt someone who forgets the pain?
Cover story: It’s a different ball game – The footballers of today are pampered gods, with mansions and massive Incomes. Why can’t they be like the down-to-earth blokes-next-door who lifted the World Cup for England?
Inside the baby farm – To take their families out of poverty, Indian women are becoming surrogate mothers for childless western couples. A win-win situation or a case of rich exploiting poor?
There’s nothing like a Dome – It was a £1 billion folly, a joke from the start. A decade on, the Dome’s new owners have overcome bad publicity and the death of Michael Jackson to create the O2, the world’s finest entertainment venue
A cardinal error – The Pope is planning to turn a British cleric into a saint, believing he performed a miracle. But medical experts are sceptical-and Catholics are poised for another scandal
68 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age.
