Parents want their kids to have more opportunities and a better life than they once had themselves. That, at least, is the theory – but the baby boomer generation, which remade the world in so many ways, seems determined to chuck that one out of the window as well.
The latest evidence for this thesis comes from YouGov, which has been polling Britain on its attitude to Brexit (because obviously we all desperately want to know more about that). It found significant evidence of what, in a shameless attempt to go viral, it termed “Brexit extremism“.
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