I often use my dad, a man who buys the Times every day, as a barometer of how well the culture war lines are landing with the average reader, and I am thrilled to report that despite years of hysterical fascist articles, he still literally hasn't noticed any of it because he just skims past anything which seems aggro about nothing.
@stavvers I wish I could say the same, my mum is a Dailly Mail reader and while I can't comment on her views on culture war topics, haven't really comes up, she is convinced Johnson got the big calls right, Stamer is "just as bad... " among other dodgy views. I wonder if the old mid-brow titles Mail and Express are more dangerous than the Times?
@DazzlingDamo @stavvers I think with politics people pay a bit more attention to what the papers say because they know it affects them. (And this opens them up to the bias the paper has.)