The Week’s everyday round-up highlights the five finest viewpoint pieces from throughout the British and global media, with excerpts from each.
1. Eric Kaufmann, professor of p olitics at Birkbeck, University of London, on UnHerd
on why the ‘Jordan Peterson generation’ is so conservative
Are youths turning to the Right?
” Something unusual is happening amongst Britain’s youngest citizens, understood as Generation Z or the Zoomers. Significantly, those under the age of 22 seem to be diverging from voters aged in between 22 and 39, and appear significantly more conservative, to the point where today’s 18- year-olds are about as conservative as 40 year-olds. Whatever the explanation, in the instant post-Brexit years the youngest citizens were 40 points more liberal than the oldest.
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