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Feb 2021
40m 36s

Culture war, what is it good for?

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New polling reveals just 4 per cent of people know what the culture war is. Matt Chorley speaks to an expert panel about what this means for politics.


Plus Esther Webber and Robert Crampton on why Germany now envies Britain.


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