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Diana showed that we need emotion,
but it’s had a downside
Matthew d'Ancona
Monday 28 August 2017 06.00 BST
The princess helped put feeling into our politics, but as we’ve seen from Brexit to the rise of Trump, this has too often taken the place of reason
‘I
walked through the crowds in St James’s, and realised this was no longer a country I truly understand.” So a former member of John Major’s cabinet lamented to me 20 years ago this week. As the nation mourned Diana, Princess of Wales, makeshift shrines sprang up all over the country, and a sea of flowers outside Kensington Palace transformed a London park into something closer to Lourdes.
