→ Is Britain’s political duopoly about to break?
Are we seeing the collapse of Britain’s political duopoly? A recent poll shows that Labour and the Tories have hit their lowest combined vote share since this parliament came to power. The two parties have fallen by 20 percentage points over the last four years, down to just 61% of the vote share.
Reform UK reach another highest ever result in our voting intention this week, rising 1pt to 16%
Con: 21% (+2 from 19-20 Mar)
Lab: 40% (-4)
Reform UK: 16% (+1)
Lib Dem: 10% (+1)
Green: 8% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)https://t.co/mp0waUzBGD pic.twitter.com/6m0U6K6Rot— YouGov (@YouGov) March 28, 2024
Largely driven by a collapse in support for the Conservatives, other parties have also been surging. Polling for Reform now puts the party at 16%, a mere 5 points behind the Tories, while the Lib Dems and Green mopped up most of the rest of the vote at 10% and 8% respectively. Sunak will be hoping that Farage’s flirtation with a return to frontline politics doesn’t come to fruition…
→ Coleman Hughes schools The View on antiracism
Envy the man who can be as unflappable as Coleman Hughes. During an appearance of The View, the cultural commentator was taken to task by several other panellists over his new book, The End of Race Politics. Accused of being a “co-opted” conservative, Hughes deftly addressed the criticisms of his book while sidestepping the ad hominem attacks that came his way.
• @coldxman‘s appearance on The View
“There’s no evidence that I’ve been co-opted by anyone. I have an independent podcast, I work for CNN as an analyst, I write for The Free Press, I’m independent in all of these endeavors and no one is paying me to say what I’m saying” pic.twitter.com/sFFWv42MHU
— Jules Terpak (@julesterpak) March 27, 2024
What was Hughes’s crime? Apparently arguing that America should strive for a colourblind society. “I view this notion of a colourblind society similar to the idea of a peaceful society, which is to say it’s an ideal, it’s a north star,” he said. “The point is not that we’ll never get there or never touch it but we have to know when we’re going forward and when we’re going backwards. We’re going backwards [at the moment].” Outrageous. That will never catch on.
→ Very Online Zoomers are turning sexist
Does being online make you sexist? Not quite, but new data shows that spending more time online affects Generation Z’s views on gender.
Being online is souring Gen Z’s views on gender..
The share of Gen Z adults who said using media has made them feel more negatively toward men (30%) and women (22%) is notably higher than that of all U.S adults—and every other major demo group, per @MorningConsult ‘s latest data pic.twitter.com/3a1Uz7j9qr
— Ellyn Briggs (@EllynBriggs) March 27, 2024
According to a new Morning Consult poll, Gen Z adults are 15 percentage points more likely than all US adults to say that their social media use has negatively impacted their outlook toward men (30%), and 10 percentage points more likely to say the same about women (22%). That is significantly higher than every other generation, raising questions about exactly what content our Zoomers are viewing. Hopefully no Andrew Tate videos…
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SubscribeThe Greens, our self-styled brahmin class, chug along below 10% of the vote, and yet manage to set all the policy framing and policy direction in every field of cultural politics. Labour’s role seems merely to do the political dirty work to implement the brahmin class’s edicts among the common folk. Obviously, based on the survey results, a plurality love this arrangement of society.