31 July 2000
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
Why Tony Blair is a Bobo
The bourgeois bohemian has succeeded the yuppy. Cristina Odoneargues that the term explains almost everything about our current rulers
Features
Concorde and the curse of Icarus
Air crashes reinforce our suspicion that man was not meant to fly
The world's leaders try to be good
Robin Oakley fears that, as usual, most of the G8's big promises will be filed and forgotten
Still panicking after all these years
Stakeholding, VAT on school fees, transport, the euro: almost anything induces panic in new Labour's inner core. By Steve Richards
The end of the Project?
We know what old Labour thinks of the government. But what about the ur-new Labourites? Anne McElvoy wants more unthinkables
Blair's amigos lead a comeback
A young lawyer is helping the Spanish Socialists reinvent themselves. Sounds familiar?
Batting for Brooklyn
Cricket has travelled across the Atlantic, changing its accent and manners in the process. Scott Lucasreports on the special relationship on the pitch
Regulars
Arts & Culture
And Chuck created God
As president of the National Rifle Association, he commands a congregation of millions. William Leith on the epic ambitions of Charlton Heston
Ad infinitum
Advertising - Ziauddin Sardar says that life is now just one long commercial
Television
Reality bends
Television - Andrew Billen encounters a proliferation of that scriptwriting cliche, the fantasy sequence
Drink
The snowball effect
Drink - Victoria Moore finds there's no such thing as equality when it comes to buying a drink
Books
Resurrecting the Third Republic. Who was Jean Moulin? Will Self unravels the myths enshrouding the elusive hero of the French resistance
The death of Jean Moulin: biography of a ghost
Patrick Marnham John Murray, 290pp, £20
ISBN 0719559197
Potted history
Pickled, Potted and Canned: the story of food preserving
Sue Shephard Headline, 358pp, £15.99
ISBN 0747223343
Back in print
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren Prion, 438pp, £7.99
ISBN 1853753483
The one and only
The Holocaust Industry: reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering
Norman G Finkelstein Verso, 150pp,
ISBN 1859847730
Cause for celebration?
The Celebration Chronicles: life, liberty and the pursuit of property value in Disney's new town
Andrew Ross Verso, 340pp, £17
ISBN 1859847722
Crime waves
A Shadow of Myself
Mike Phillips HarperCollins, 321pp, £16.99
ISBN 0002326671
Beneath the Skin
Nicci French Michael Joseph, 360pp, £9.99
Observations
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