03 June 2002
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Cover story
Don't save the Queen - for her sake
Junk the Jubilee - Elizabeth Windsor has led a life of unmitigated weirdness, leaving her emotional machinery almost entirely out of order. By Johann Hari
Features
The rise of the dour technocrats
Stephen Byers was one of the Blair gang, but he got carried away with his reputation for media savvy. The reshuffle shows that ministers who keep their heads down will now do best
Royal scams
Junk the Jubilee
No royalty in this house
Junk the Jubilee
Flames clinging to a torched village
India talks of terrorism, and the world listens. But the Kashmiris have tens of thousands dead, and the world is deaf to their plight. By Kamila Shamsie
You are wrong, Mr Blair: it is you who is prejudiced about science, and it is the people at large who have respect for the evidence
The Prime Minister believes in the unfailing beneficence of high tech. Colin Tudge, who has devoted his adult life to scientific study, wants him to think again
Essay
NS Essay - Whose culture are we talking about?
In our attitudes both to immigrants and to foreign languages in schools, we take it for granted that Britain should be a monoglot society. This is bad history, and it will be bad for our future, argues Deborah Cameron
Regulars
Cristina Odone on the foreigners' favourite Brit
What does Britain stand for? Even where the red flags fly, it's still the Queen
Darcus Howe finds an intifada up north
What we are seeing, among young Asians in the northern towns, is an intifada
John Pilger sees Israel denying its past
Ethnic cleansing attended the birth of Israel but, more than 50 years later, the country is still in denial about its bloody past. Those who speak out risk their jobs
Competition
Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store
Culture
Better than Bollywood
It's a hot summer for India's film industry, but Salil Tripathi prefers a film-maker who favours reality over schmaltz
Kitsch Britannia
Art - Ned Denny discovers tacky baubles and true gems among the Queen's treasures
Moving target
Video games - Nicholas Blincoe takes a nostalgia trip back to the virtual reality of the Eighties
Television
Keeping ma'am about the money
Television - Andrew Billen on the fascinating secrets of the Queen's counting house
The Fan
The Fan - Hunter Davies
In the mornings, I use the same bathwater as my wife. So for the World Cup, she will have to sharpen up her act, getting out of it the second the half-time whistle blows
Books
It's sex, Jim, but not as we know it. The Kamasutra was no more than a self-help manual for a bored, heartless Indian elite. So why is it so popular today in the decadent west? By Pankaj Mishra
Kamasutra Mallanaga Vatsyayana. Translated by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar Oxford World's Classics, 231pp, £14.99 ISBN 0192802704
Lost on the island of forgetting. John Dugdale on a remarkable novel that has already been acclaimed in America as "the first great book of the new century"
Gould's Book of Fish: a novel in twelve fish Richard Flanagan Atlantic Books, 404pp, £16.99 ISBN 1843540215
Penetrating angle
The Sexual Life of Catherine M Catherine Millet Serpent's Tail, 186pp, £12 ISBN 1852428112
The enchanter
Joseph Cornell: master of dreams Diane Waldman Harry N Abrams, 152pp, £30 ISBN 0810912279
Endless night
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel Edited by Nathalie Babel Picador, 1,072pp, £30 ISBN 0330490311
The grand illusion
Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile's hidden history Andy Beckett Faber and Faber, 280pp, £15.99 ISBN 0571202411
Novel of the week
The Emperor of Ocean Park Stephen L Carter Jonathan Cape, 657pp, £18 ISBN 0224062840
