In 2015, there were just 21 articles in the main UK newspapers and news websites that talked about “culture wars” in our own country. It used to be that our media’s coverage of this issue was dominated by discussion of fractious division in the US, marked by a spike in articles in each presidential election year since 2004. But in 2020, there were twice as many articles about our home-grown culture wars than American ones, despite the US experiencing the most divisive presidential election in living memory. SponsoredThe timing of this exponential surge in media coverage in the UK seems to point to Brexit as a trigger. But while the cultural divisions that Brexit revealed and reinforced have certainly played

Source: The Times May 25, 2021 23:26 UTC