Interesting article here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8399767.stm

got me thinking. Who would it be for the 2000s and why?

John Major
edit: 'and why'? – dull, grey, fairly un-memorable.

George Bush

or in cycling terms:
Lance armstrong

Bin Laden?

Jade Goody.
RIP

George Bush

+1 for Dubya

Definately Bush. I think there's a lot of lessons to be learned from this experiment of electing a monkey into the most powerful seat in the world.

edit: Just read the article, Madeleine McCann and Jade Goody? Come on! How on earth do these names sum up a decade?

George Bush

For all the wrong reasons – "mission accomplished" 👿

Madeleine McCann and Jade Goody

WTF? 🙄

Well I think it's actually 20 people – Bush and Bliar have to be there.

George Dubya Bush here too

Jade Goody -the name and all its tragic association stands for vacuous 'celebrity', so there is some justification.

Bush was fairly vacuous too, come to think of it. He's completely disappeared from the world stage, which is a good thing, but also says a lot.

Bush, and not in a good way.

Blair – if only for all the good he did with trying to recreate family values and a nurturing culture, the sure start system and children's centres, the things that are now just starting to bear fruit ready to be axed by the incoming tory government 🙁 (Don't agree with ALL that he did though)

Murdoch's got to be in the mix as well, possibly as the most influential of the non-poliitcians.

On a similar note, listening to 1989:day by day on Radio 4 has been a real eye opener, a monumental year in 20th century history.

the sure start system

Yes, it is good and has been appreciated, mostly by the respectable people with some spare cash that would bring up their children properly anyway.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great, but not quite up there with Sept-11-2001 and the aftermath as the event/zeitgeist of the decade.

Tiger Woods.

Dull and in retrospect a bit of a turd.

Thatcher…

10 years.

Arent the rest of them eras?

ricky gervais

Ah, cripes, does this mean tv all over new year will be dominated by pointless tedious debates about the meaning of the decade just ending?

Yeah, Thatcher! And Gordon Gecko…"Greed is good".

Good job we have committed characters like this to the annals of history, else we could have had a near collapse of the political/economic systems that underpin our great nation!

The Dacade dosen't finish till 2010..

graham, there's no point being a pedant if you can't spell

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