With 2007 finally over, I'll be the first to admit that we have managed to see a lot of comebacks masquerading as brand spanking new ideas over the past 365 days. Nu-rave? The 80's? Been there, done that! So now, it's time for 2008 to come out with this year's spring-cleaned bells and whistles:

1. Disney Classics. It is time for the revival to be restored. Quite frankly, days of innocently wishing afternoons away in grand Kingdoms with gorgeous Princes needs to be hastily bought back.

2. High society. I don't mean the 1950's film starring Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly. I'm talking about the class divide. Yes people, it is well and truly going to be back and unabashed. I'm not so much for it, but just ready for when it comes.

3. Reunion tours. Hurray! We have seen it with the likes of Take That, Boyzone, The Spice Girls and Led Zeppelin resurface from the shadows of past success. Rumour has it that Deep Purple are ready to make a tour comeback. Good for them, just make you wonder who else will be back?

4. Being scared of authority. I am not holding my breath, it could happen. They are planning something.

5. Happy hour on Friday nights. Surprisingly overtaken by the ever-so cosmopolitan Thursday night, Friday was carelessly cast aside as a lazy evening, so don't get too comfortable in front of the TV, Friday nights are going to be bigger and better than ever before. Remember you don't have to work the next day, so why not head home with a mild hangover after a couple of after-work drinks? You know it makes sense.

6. Morbid health campaigning. A sad inevitability, you have been warned. It's going to be worse than the 80's.

7. Dressing like your parents. Retro has taken over the hearts and minds of the fashionistas (again). Riffle through your parent's wardrobe, quick!

8. Pressure. Are you 20 +, rigid with debt, stuck in a ridiculously mind-numbing job and still living at home with the folks? Welcome, the Quarterlife crisis is taking over. Authors like Damian Barr and Abby Wilner will be raking it in as their musings are primarily on this relatively new age of pressure.

9. Tom Cruise. Oh lucky us! It's not one that I'm altogether particularly excited about. With his wacky life story being rejected and a new film coming out, he is planning on making a rather dubious return to the mainstream.

10. Ball-room dancing. After winning BBC 1's Strictly Come Dancing, 20-something ex pop-princess Alesha Dixon has emblazoned us with a wonderfully new (but old) hobby that is not only incredibly sexy, but something that your parents cannot possibly deny as a bad idea to take up and, even better still, it'll keep you as fit as a fiddle. Bring it on!

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