The culture war is one of oppositional narratives advanced by small groups of antagonists, while the majority of us are left looking on and scratching our heads. The Guardian, for instance, has done more than any other publication to stoke the culture war, and yet articles often appear within its pages either denying its existence or claiming that it is an invention of ‘the right’. According to a study by the Policy Institute and King’s College London, the Guardian was the publication that used the term ‘culture wars’ most frequently between 1993 and 2020. Owen Jones maintains that ‘a lot of
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