16 July 2001
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Cover story
How long have we got?
The future of the world climate will be decided in Bonn and Genoa this month. These talks are without precedent
Features
Tory leaders: they cannot be serious!
Conservative activists used to do as they were told. Now they have democracy, they want candidates they can vote for. Are there any? Simon Heffer reports
This love affair could go too far
New Labour has enveloped the private schools in a fierce ideological embrace. But the schools would like ministers to cool down, reports Francis Beckett
How to show you love the planet
Green issue - GM foods, a warming world, threatened trees. Which green issues should worry us most? And what can we do? By Zac Goldsmith and Stephanie Roth
Blame ego politics, not eco-politics
Green issue - Kyoto stands a better chance without the Greens. ByGeoffrey Lean
Out of the twilight
Green issue - There are no green films, plays or literary criticism. Why?
Let's set the countryside on fire
Green issue - Coal, oil and gas are just the residues of plants that once lived above ground. So why not burn plants on the surface?
Boycott them until they go green
Green issue - Citizenship and consumerism can be a powerful combination, argues David Nicholson-Lord
Meet your Greens
Green issue - A country-by-country guide, compiled by Jann Bettinga and Ruth Hollinger
Don't leave environment to Labour
Green issue - The Tories must give up saying the planet is safe, and show the right can save it. By Charles Clover
Trust no one, fear everything
Whisper it softly, but a compromise on missile defence may soon be reached. John Lloyd on why America will win
Culture
Scanning the century
Photography special - Bill Gates plans to deep-freeze the Bettmann Archive 200 feet below ground. But, asks Stephen Smith, what is the point of preserving 17 million photographs if nobody can see them?
The end of art
Photography 2 - Richard Cork on the invention that threatened to make painting obsolete
Shooting both sides
Photography 3 - Alex Burmaster looks at the impact of photojournalism in Vietnam
The Bigger Picture
A selection of the best photographic exhibitions around England this summer. Compiled by Natalie Brierley and Ruth Hollinger
Television
Beeb gets all boss-eyed
Television - Andrew Billen unearths a gem on dead-end office life in Slough
Books
The noble savage. It took the near-ruination of the environment for man to realise he was not separate from nature, but part of it. Will Self probes the animal origins of human culture
The Ape and the Sushi Master: cultural reflections by a primatologist Frans de Waal Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 433pp, £16.99 ISBN 0713995696
The return of Essex Man
One For My Baby Tony Parsons HarperCollins, 330pp, £15.99 ISBN 0002261820
She never said it
Marie Antoinette: the journey Antonia Fraser Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 448pp, £25 ISBN 0297819089
The inner lumberjack
Landscape With Chainsaw James Lasdun Cape Poetry, 52pp, £8 ISBN 0224061070
Left with the dregs
England Calling Edited by Julia Bell and Jackie Gay Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 318pp, £12.99 ISBN 0575071273
Paperback reader
Black Cat Martyn Bedford Penguin, 232pp, £5.99 ISBN 014027289
The Tour must go on
Breaking the Chain: drugs and cycling - the true story Willy Voet, translated by William Fotheringham Yellow Jersey Press, 128pp, £10 ISBN 0224060562 French revolutions: cycling the tour de france Tim Moore Yellow Jersey Press, 277pp, £12 Bikie: a love affair with the racing bicycle Charlie Woods Mainstream Publishing, 186pp, £9.99
Novel of the week
Rescue Me Christopher Hart Faber, 232pp, £9.99 ISBN 0571206255
