Thread by @sundersays

Do you have sympathy for Harry and Meghan (29% yes, 56% no) has a starker generational divide than just about any other issue that I can think of.
18-24: 59% yes, 20% no (+39)
65+: 13% yes, 79% no (-66)

yougov.co.uk/topics/politic…

YouGov do not report breaks by ethnicity on this issue. It is definitely a weakness (in 2021) when questions are asked of perceptions of racism without any breaks by ethnicity.

Republicanism has scored just under 1/5 in almost every poll for the half century since it was first polled in 1969. But the institution's long-term challenge is to retain support across generations.

I wrote about the extraordinary stability of attitudes to the Monarchy for the New Statesman back in 2012. (Support for a Republic was 18% in 1969, 18% in 1993, 19% in 2002, 18% in 2007, 18% in 2011). Now appears to be about 17% in 2021.
newstatesman.com/blogs/the-stag…

The generational divide might lead us to anticipate that print media & online media would have a different balance of coverage.

Share of voice of the under-24s in our media discourse is quite narrow. (And major broadcasters are currently struggling to reach this audience)

Various potential contributory factors, eg
- Lower engagement/more agnostic about Monarchy
- Less engagement with print media
- Different attitudes to race/shifting perceptions of what racism is
- Correlation with other generation shifts? (education, gender views, mental health)

For comparison, this was the Brexit referendum by age (according to Lord Ashcroft's referendum day poll on 23/6/16)

2019 general election, ht @JoshNeicho

58% of women and 44% of men are in the 51% of people who told Ipsos-Mori they were very/fairly interested in news about the British Royal family
ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-…

It's interesting that is a similar-ish broadly inverse gender profile to interest in football (the national team). These may perhaps be alternative national soap operas.