29 July 2002
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Cover story
The workers are restless
From the city of The Full Monty comes the forgotten rumble of revolt, as the shop floor sends "the man from nowhere" to lead one of Britain's top unions. Robert Taylor reports on an industrial earthquake
Features
A cloud hangs over the temple
Athens is gearing up to host the Olympic Games - but that honour comes at a high price
How British law detains the innocent
In the greatest secrecy, Arabs are being held in London's most secure prison. Neither you nor they are allowed to know the evidence against them
The Queen of Hearts embalmed
Nearly five years after Diana's death, Richard Askwith joins the pilgrims at Althorp and, despite ample cause for cynicism, finds that his heart moves with theirs
Regulars
Politically incorrect - John Kampfner finds Blair at odds with civil servants
Downing Street will be glad to see the back of the present head of the civil service. But will his successor go into battle against those pesky special advisers?
John Pilger gives David Hare a piece of his mind
David Hare and other writers who enjoy a public platform should listen to Desmond Tutu: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"
Darcus Howe moves out of central Brixton
Brixton has armed robberies and vagrants, but the middle classes flock here
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Culture
Remembrance days
Plans for an American Second World War memorial in Washington have been condemned as "imperial kitsch". Matthew Dodd is disturbed by the nostalgic values behind the neoclassical design
High ideals
Photography - Malcolm Clark is unconvinced by the latest homage to Ansel Adams, America's green saint
Turning heads
Design - Hadley Freeman takes her hat off to the eccentric muse who revived British fashion
Television
The day Maggie won the 1980s
Television - Andrew Billen is glad we had to wait 22 years for a film on the Iranian embassy siege
Books
The rich man and the butterfly. Are we trapped on a runaway train? Bjorn Lomborg, self-styled sceptical environmentalist, on why ecologists are wrong to despair about the future of the planet
Rising Tides: a history of the environmental revolution and visions for an ecological age Rory Spowers Canongate Books, 334pp, £14.99 ISBN 184195246X
Going underground
Inferno Translated by Michael Palma W W Norton, 400pp, £28 ISBN 039304341X The Inferno of Dante Alighieri Translated by Ciaran Carson Granta, 320pp, £14.99 The Divine Comedy Part I: hell Translated by Dorothy L Sayers Penguin, 352pp, £7.50
Through a rear-view mirror. John Gray outlines a tragic vision of history
Up the Down Escalator: why the global pessimists are wrong Charles Leadbeater Viking, 384pp, £20 ISBN 0670913227
Death or glory
Put Me Back on My Bike: in search of Tom Simpson William Fotheringham Yellow Jersey Press, 272pp, £15.99 ISBN 0224061860
