Away from Twitter, the world is not as divided as we might think Stephan Shakespeare Joel Rogers de Waal
Dec 03, 2021
3 minutes
Illustration R Fresson
Today’s widely accepted narrative is that we live in historically divided times. Voters are routinely described as “polarised”, while analysts compete to identify the essential schism of the age, whether this is metropolitan versus traditionalist, people versus democracy or anywheres versus somewheres
For a third year running, however, the YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project supports a different interpretation: that extreme views are given greater visibility by social media, which in turn creates an especially dynamic climate of
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