Britons who shout loudest are not always the worst-off
Something strange is happening to the way we think and talk about need
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Something strange is happening to the way we think and talk about need
When voters act strangely, we want to believe we are living through a kink in history
It takes steel and silk from a prime minister to handle the emotions of the nation
Such intimidating behaviour reflects leading Leavers’ paranoia and power
Heathrow’s extra runway is proof that travel remains central to our lives
Britain will probably suffer materially from Brexit but corporatism will not return
Notebook: The prime minister’s contrast with her predecessor is overblown
If it leaves consumers feeling pinched, the pound’s post-referendum fall will change public opinion
Notebook: The band Oasis, and Theresa May, embody a lost world of emotional self-reliance
Sometimes history throws up ideas that are better tested than forever stymied
Over a bottle of Riesling in Munich, the Oscar-winning director talks about politics, power and creating films with attitude
Beyond the politics, there are questions of tone, even taste, in Conservative party policy, writes Janan Ganesh
Local decision-making is a better fit for a complex, divided society
People are rightly obsessed with the precise contours of Britain’s future relations with the EU
Notebook: Even Allardyce recognised the association’s incompetence – it now faces a tough decision
There is a reasonable chance that Gordon Brown will turn out to have been the party’s last premier
Picture them roaming public life like ghosts, helping out without ever being central to anything
Everything the UK leader has done in these opening months has conveyed strength and novelty
Notebook: The sport symbolises the breakdown of the American century, writes Janan Ganesh
No Nobel laureate or chess grandmaster can out-think an upper-middle-class couple trying to rig life for its spawn
Notebook: The end of society’s semi-tolerance of drug use could prove bigger than the club’s closure
The PM has no reason to demur. A quick election could keep her in power until she is bored
British cultural chronicles conscript luckless workers to a leftwing creed they have always rejected
Little matches this as a case study of intended success, of a top-down project going to plan
Notebook: Class rigidities and old notions of masculinity succumbed to the proto-yuppies