20 August 2007
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Cover story
The most important protest of our time
Aviation is the incendiary issue in environmental politics today. The campaigners at Heathrow are just the vanguard of a powerful new people's movement.
Features
No mercy for Ming
The polls may be bad for David Cameron, but they are even worse for Menzies Campbell. The knives are out for him, even if he cannot yet see them
Still the lucky country
Julianne Schultz introduces a special report on Australia - a nation anxious to recover its old confidence and flair
No more victims
Indigenous people must stop expecting help from others and start taking responsibility, argues Noel Pearson, a leading Aboriginal lawyer
A pretty determined bastard
A studious Christian who speaks fluent Mandarin is an unlikely political hero. But Kevin Rudd looks set to be next prime minister.
Over here
There are thought to be some 200,000 young Australians in London. But why on earth would they leave the sun, surf and easygoing lifestyle of their homeland?
Regulars
Diary
In Afghanistan, memories of Vietnam
It is one of the constants of war zones that the further you are from front lines, the more optimistic the military assessments become
The Financial Page
This pandemonium will hurt us all
America's housing bubble has burst: it's the price of making easy money from the poorest in society, and we could have seen it coming
Meet the president, our perfect CEO
A business culture has overtaken the civil service ethos in France plc
This England
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Shazia's Week
Shazia’s week
Everyone in Edinburgh lives up four flights of stairs. It's really funny watching the smokers
Ask the Netdoctor No 3991
Set by Hank T Romein
Now that you can buy updated versions of Monopoly, with congestion charge penalties and National Lottery prizes added to the more familiar “second prize in a beauty contest” Chance cards, we asked you to send in other updatings of familiar children’s games such as Doctors and Nurses and Cops and Robbers
Arts & Culture
For your eyes only
Visual art once had only a walk-on part at the Edinburgh Festival. With a fine selection of shows this year, it is now centre stage.
Theatre
Making a song and dance about it
Royal Festival Hall reopens with a breathtaking version of Carmen Jones
Carmen Jones Royal Festival Hall, London SE1
Film
Bourne to thrill
Matt Damon shines in an intelligent, pacy action film with a conscience
The Bourne Ultimatum (12A) dir: Paul Greengrass
Television
A reasonable man
New Agers are a soft target, but it's a joy to watch Dawkins take them to task
The Enemies of Reason Channel 4
Radio
Letters from a merry critic
Clive James, who's mellowed with age, is a worthy successor to Alistair Cooke
Travels
Land of the old general
Visiting Paraguay, Ben Davies finds a decaying country that still bears the scars of dictatorship
The way I see it
Chris Momendeng
Momendeng, a former inmate at HMP Highpoint, is one of the artists featured in “Insider Art”, an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London SW1, until 9 September. For more info, visit the ICA website http://www.ica.org.uk
Books
Coming home to roost
Rooks are one of Britain's most common birds. But, as an eccentric memoir reveals, there is much mystery behind the mundane.
Tales from the city
Vivien Goldman on urban lit - stories of survival, revenge and desire on the streets of New York
Strange company
Teeth Under the Sun
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão Dalkey Archive Press, 368pp, £8.99
Rough justice
Nationality: Wog. The Hounding of David Oluwale
Kester Aspden Jonathan Cape, 236pp, £12.99
Not cool, dude
I’m a Lebowski, You’re a Lebowski
Bill Green, Ben Peskoe, Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt Canongate, 256pp, £12.99
A matter of taste
Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and their Food
John Dickie Sceptre, 404pp, £20
