7 August 2000
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Cover story
You're no better than a stuffed badger, Ma'am
Long live the republic - Even her daughter calls her "the Problem". So why the fuss about this boozing old bore, asks Glen Newey
Features
100 good reasons to be a republican
Long live the republic
Just a sniggering matter
Long live the republic - Andrew Stephen, our Washington editor, reports that Americans, far from esteeming royalty, see the Queen as a relic in white gloves
Tony Blair, the closet republican
Long live the republic - Most new Labour ministers regard the royals as past their sell-by date
A lord's lot is not a happy one
The recently ennobled David Lipsey finds that a new Labour peerage is sheer drudgery
Down in the Fleet Street underworld
When a journalist needs help, he may go to Gavin or Jonathan, as well as Benji
Socialism loses another old star
John Lloydmourns the passing of L'Unita, the organ of Italy's far left
Arts & Culture
Drowning in music
We are more musically sophisticated than ever before. But, argues Joseph Bottum, the relentless soundtracking of our lives has left us saturated in meaningless noise
Cutting edge
Design - Hugh Aldersey-Williams admires manufacturing's answer to the Naked Chef
Soul Trane
Music - Richard Cook follows the ecstatic, troubled journey of John Coltrane's career
Film
Not enough fish
Film - Jonathan Romney on an imperfect adaptation of Sebastian Junger's bestseller
Television
Rocky romance
Television - Andrew Billen is not attracted to a new BBC series, despite its handsome lead
Books
In the name of God, go. Labour is too eager to prostrate itself before the throne. Nick Cohen on why Britain will never be a true democracy while a monarch reigns
The Republic of Britain: 1760 to the Present
Frank Prochaska Penguin, 293pp, £20
ISBN 0713994541
Telling tales
Second Term: a story of spin, sabotage and seduction
Simon Walters Politico's, 399pp, £16.99
ISBN 1902301684
Boy's own
Me Against My Brother: at war in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda
Scott Peterson Routledge, 256pp, £14.99
ISBN 0415921988
Across the Red River: Rwanda, Burundi
and the heart of darkness
Christian Jennings Victor Gollancz, 349pp, £18.99
African dream
Desert Divers
Sven Lindqvist Granta, 192pp, £8.99
ISBN 1862073597
Killings in Kashmir
Soldier Sahibs: the men who made the North-West Frontier
Charles Allen John Murray, 368pp, £22.50
ISBN 0719554187
Novel of the week
Love, etc
Julian Barnes Cape, 250pp, £15.99
ISBN 0224065297
Observations
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