Let's give Britney a break ; The troubled star may be suffering from bipolar disorder, not just drink and drugs. It's a condition that needs public sympathy

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: January 8, 2008| Author: MARK PORTER | Copyright information

AT FIRST glance things look pretty bleak for Britney Spears. She has lost access to her children, and her increasingly bizarre behaviour led to her incarceration in a psychiatric ward over the weekend. Britney's mother and sister are reported to have given up on her and, to cap it all, her latest record is struggling to make the top 20.

But there is a glimmer of hope for the first time reports of her demise don't centre on drug and alcohol abuse but on the possibility that she has bip...