Gordon Brown waited so long to finally take over from Tony Blair, but I bet he wishes he'd left it another couple of months. Since his inauguration, he has had to deal with, as the Guardian puts it, the three Fs - floods, foot & mouth and fundamentalism.
Within his first week Brown had a series of terror alerts to deal with, followed by the worst flooding this country's seen for 150 years and then an outbreak of a potentially costly disease. He has had to learn a very swift lesson in crisis management.
So how well has he dealt with these unfortunate situations?
Click here for the Guardian's analysis and leave your thoughts below.
Or why not try reading The Future of Socialism by Anthony Crosland and Gordon Brown - according to The Times "it provides the classic formula for relating the ideals of social democracy to the realities of the modern world"